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Art & Culture

‘You carry your roots with you even when your home is elsewhere’

Home is any place where you are comfortable in your skin. Roots are much deeper.

‘I am still searching for a place to call home’

What impacted me even more than growing up with art and culture was growing up with freedom and the space to question—this has had a profound impact on my choices, my values and the person I am

A Historical Sense

What Sanskrit has meant to me

‘I feel like a South Indian trapped in a North Indian body’

The thing about Chandigarh is that nobody is really from Chandigarh.

‘Nature has humbled me and also toughened me’

I am still a boy from the hills who believes in the goodness of the human heart

Why We Leave Home

The story of a small Himalayan town in the Northeast

‘To a young man, every city looks like Paris’

Lucknow reflects in my work, the way I talk, the way I walk and the way I live my life.

‘Home and roots are synonymous with comfort and identity’

Originally, I am not from Kolkata. I came from the suburbs, and ended up forming a strong relationship with the city.

‘Most urban people don’t know where they belong’

Though I was born in Belwa, a small village in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border, I was packed off to a boarding school in Bettiah after class four.

The Other Khan

An encounter with a Bollywood wannabe

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