Essays
Just Another Massacre
Chinki Sinha
Sinam Ongbi Chandrajini lost two young sons and a sister when Assam Rifles personnel arbitrarily opened fire on civilians in Malom in 2000. It was the horror of this incident that led Irom Sharmila to begin her fast against AFSPA
How I survived 42 hours in a lift
Suresh Sonawane, an inspector working with the Missing Persons Bureau of the Mumbai police, went missing—only to be found two days later trapped in an office elevator
Birth of a Tycoon
How Rama Prasad Goenka got baptised by fire in the acquisitions game to emerge as India’s ‘takeover specialist’
The Hills Go Red
Memories of an agitation unsettling the calm of Kalimpong and of a human head on a lamppost
The Show Goes On
A decade into her modelling career, at a stage when most others would have thought it prudent to call it quits, Candice Pinto still walks the ramp nearly 300 days a year. The secret of her career longevity
Tango’s First Steps
How the Great Depression, Juan Peron and the brothels of Argentina influenced the creation of one of the world’s most vibrant forms of music
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Abdul Wasey Mirza has survived two bomb blasts, one in Hyderabad in 2007 and another in the same city in February this year. Hundreds of pieces of shrapnel lodged in his body are proof of the ordeal, but what he wants to rid himself of are the scars of being branded a terror suspect
Genes and Sneakers
As Arjun Tendulkar takes baby steps in competitive cricket, Rohan Gavaskar talks about the challenges of stepping into a famous dad’s shoes
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