Essays

In Memory of Mayawati

Gautam Bhatia

If an etching of her presence on the template of history is what she wanted, that’s all she’ll have got at the end. Here’s how we’ll remember her

Why Sex is Divine

Charu Bahri

There’s more to the erotic imagery at the Khajuraho temples than a wanton display of lust. The author reveals the architectural logic for these sacred sculptures

Space Cadet

Shovon Chowdhury

This author lost his boyhood to science fiction. It was a bit like Dante’s hell: abandon ye all hope, those who enter here

At Home in JNU

Rahul Jayaram

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

Unicultural Indians in Multicultural Australia?

Gautam Bhatia

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

Rahul Bhatia

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

Rahul Chandawarkar

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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TS Rajagopalan

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