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Essays

At Home in JNU

Meet the man who can’t part ways with Jawaharlal Nehru University

Unicultural Indians in Multicultural Australia?

So the scene for Indians is really bad in Australia. But surely there’s something these hapless desis can do to make life easier for themselves

Music to My Ears

Resul Pookutty is a film sound engineer, sound designer and sound mixer. In 2008, he won the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing for Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire

King and I

A modest apartment, a borrowed Maruti 800 for outings, Mahendra Peshwa, descendant of the legendary Maratha rulers, is like any other middle-class guy. Except for that last name...

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After three years of post-retirement blues, former government employee TS Rajagopalan started working again—at a call centre, with youngsters half his age

A Fine Balance

Bobby is a 32-year-old man who feels like a woman. Here, he talks about what he went through to be both, and still come out happy

City of Imagination

The author on Calcutta’s elusive connection with its literary tradition and the anarchy caused by the Hungry Generation

Mother Superior?

Mothers think they are the centre of their children’s universe. Alas, they find they are not

Bollywood, via Patna

This Tinseltown’s most prolific reporter works out of Patna. How does he go about doing his job in a state of absence?

On the Road, All the Time

For 16 years, Dipankar Sarkar has been living on Delhi’s streets. And he has fought the cops to claim his place under the sun

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