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Kalki Koechlin: Dragon Queen

Kaveree Bamzai

Kalki Koechlin’s mommy memoir is like her: candid, creative and full of truths that the merchants of bliss don’t reveal

Student Supplicant Politician Statesman

Roderick Matthews

London played both active and passive roles in Gandhi’s life. It was where he became a man and a lawyer, and where he first played high-stakes politics. British law shaped him; the orderly part of his system was based squarely on the idea of staying within the law, and expecting your opponents to do the same

A Writer’s Meditation by the Teesta

The waters of sorrow

The Old New Hanoi

Text and Photographs by Ashish Sharma

The rustic charms and modern cool of Vietnam

Dilli Darshan with Virginia Woolf

Women writers as city guides

Rupi Kaur: Life in Lower Case

What is it that makes the poetry of Rupi Kaur insta-sensational?

Prison Diaries

Sukanya Shantha

Where institutional cruelty is the norm

Bakula Nayak: It’s Yesterday

Akhila Krishnamurthy

Bakula Nayak uses fragments of the past to create new canvases

Akhil Sharma: ‘I am an Immigrant’

Akhil Sharma takes his readers into the core of human experience

Summer

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

There was no malice at heart, only relief—the gratitude for leaving graveyards on feet

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Defender of the faith

Lawrence Bishnoi: A Don’s World