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Last Train from WTC

Shazia Omar

Shazia Omar shares the shock of watching 9/11 unfold in front of her eyes and how it brought perspective in her life.

We Are What You Are

Being Muslim means something to others. It is also much more than stifling labels

Listening to a Silent Audience

A life on stage is absolutely magical, especially when you sense the power to hold your audience captive

Truth Is My Religion

In India, says former forest officer Rajendra Pratap Balwan, who was victimised for trying to save the Aravali forests, you are a rebel if you go by the book

Vertical Limit

Pune teenager Krushnaa Patil climbed Mt Everest recently and spent half an hour on top of the world. But strangely, it wasn’t quite the whoohoo moment she thought it would be. Her Everest moment had come a little before the summit...

Spice of Life

He loved the quiet life in Kerala: the settled job, the quaint club with a pool full of frogs, perhaps even the growing paunch. Now, he explains the physics of arranged marriages to Yanks. Besides selling spices, that is

A Muse I Have No Use for

He suffers from amusia and can’t tell the difference between the national anthem and Beethoven’s Fifth

At Home in JNU

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

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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