True Life

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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

A Fine Balance

Avantika Bhuyan

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

Mother Superior?

Saaz Aggarwal

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

Bollywood, via Patna

Subhash K. Jha

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

Dipankar Sarkar

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

Why I Sing

CP Surendran

Sunidhi Chauhan is the nearest India has to a rock star. She tells us how performing on stage gives her the freedom to cut to loose

Living Clean

Madhavankutty Pillai

No stealing, no bribing, no meat, no queue jumping. Madhavankutty Pillai gives the ethical life his best shot, and finds it tough going.

Vijay Nambisan has chosen to live on the margins. The mainstream passes him by. How does the world of career moves and caste politics, hype and hysteria, awards and acclaim appear to a man whose every day may as well be a Saturday?