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Essays

The sacred and the profane

Let the spiritual and the sustainable meet to save the Ganga

A requiem for our first car

With the demise of the Ambassador goes the last symbol of the Nehruvian Age

The Queen of Khap

Sudesh Choudhary has broken a tradition spanning more than six centuries. Do men still set the limits of her power?

Maybe some paraffin for a nation stuck

The person you really have to watch out for is a certain energetic public servant from Gujarat, because leaders’ biggest troubles are almost always self-inflicted wounds

Sexual Harassment

The author underwent female-to-male sex re-assignment surgery, but has been unable to switch his passport gender. The story of his struggle in his own words

A Venetian lesson for the Lion of Hindustan

What the world’s longest lasting republic can teach the leader of the world’s largest democracy

The Elephant Whisperer

What started as a photography assignment to capture a festival of pachyderms soon turned into a passion project for Anand Shinde

Aggression of the ascetic

Deconstructing Modi’s semiotic war: Is it the end of Nehruvian India?

Nocturnal Mission

Wandering the city at night with photographer Gavin Evans

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