Category: Features

Delhi welcomes meWith its colours and chaosA feast for the soulThe city is aliveWith people and cultureA mosaic of diversityDilli has captured meWith its magic and its graceA gift for the heart Some events are so dramatic that any record of them appears like fiction. The life of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of Delhi, and his family took such a drastic turn in

Words wear different garbs very often, almost playfully, as they go along. As time and use and events overtake, they cannot stay pristine. In each phase, a particular sense, an aura asserts itself. Take the word ‘encounter’, for instance. What did encounter mean to people in the first place, unlayered, unladen? Quite simply, two persons or things coming up face to face with each other.

The only good thing about summer is the array of cool treats that come with it – and we all need some quick, simple, healthy drinks to beat the heat. These summer coolers are easy to make, loaded with the goodness of fresh fruit, and very delicious. Picked from 3 different cookbooks, they can give your morning a great boost and get you set for

Devika Sethi teaches Modern Indian History at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, India. She has been educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and at JNU, New Delhi. She is the author of War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930-60. She recently published her second book Banned & Censored: What the British Raj didn’t want us to Read. We recently did a candid

We have prepared an Indian Thali with summer recipes from Nandita Iyer‘s The Great Indian Thali. Try yours and share your thalis with us! Appetizers, Drinks, Condiments Aam KashundiGreen Mango and Mustard SaucePrep time: 1-2 hours; Time taken: 10 minutes;Fermenting time (optional): 2 days | Makes over 1 cupThis quintessential Bengali condiment with its golden yellow colour and the right balance of sweet, sour, heat,

Banned & Censored, selected and introduced by Devika Sethi, will take you on a journey of words and ideas that were deemed dangerous and seditious by the British colonial state in the eventful first half of the twentieth century in India. If censorship gives us an insight into the weaknesses of a state – its many Achilles’ heels, as it were – these texts collectively

Why We Eat Our motivation to eat is self-evident; we eat to live.More often than not, we observe that axiom overturned.Humanity apparently, is living just to eat, shoveling in delectables as if there’s no tomorrow. Fact, not hyperbole. If we keep swallowing delectables at this rate, there will be no tomorrow – not for individuals, not for our species.In a world where a child dies

The human eye is conditioned to observe surroundings from a perspective that is generally no more than two metres from the ground. But, Karam Puri‘s stunning aerial photographs go a step beyond in mapping Madhya Pradesh, the beating heart of India, with a lens through which it has never been seen before, grandly yet intimately. Watch the trailer to see how he captured India’s heartland entirely

We recently interviewed Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed who write together as Kalpish Ratna and have written Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right.As practicing surgeons, they believe the end of the antibiotic era and the emergence of new diseases calls for an urgent shift of medical attention from hospital to home.Over the past two decades, they have studied the parallels between environmental assault and

In 2019 before the world had any idea of the COVID pandemic, I launched on a journey of epic proportions – to shoot and document the vast interior of India from the sky. Madhya Pradesh From Above was to be a never before seen perspective of India. Her monuments, vast landscapes, bustling cities and people from high in the air. I chose Madhya Pradesh because it represents the