personal history

The Fugitive’s Tryst with Destiny

Carlo Pizzati

As I travelled around India by retracing the steps of my great-uncle who landed here 80 years before I did, the irony struck me: here I was, an Italian in India by choice, chasing the ghost of a dear relative who had been brought to Bombay in chains in December 1940 by the British

A Passage to India

Carlo Pizzati

Feeling freer than ever on a beach in Tamil Nadu

Prisoner of the Present

Bhavya Dore

Anjum Hasan’s new novel is about a middle-aged history teacher living in Delhi

The Pleasure and Pain of Old Age

Bhaichand Patel

It has given me time to write even as my body began to crumble

Whispers from the Walled City

Chintan Girish Modi

A man reckons with his past in Lahore

Now in Paris, this Ukrainian entrepreneur worries for her family back home

Ullekh NP

Artist-entrepreneur Svitlana Martynjuk lashes out at the Kremlin and says she feels betrayed by the Americans

The Poet Patriot

Keshava Guha

The moral and political life of Jagat Narain Lal

Awadh Despatches

Zakia Soman

The personal and political journey of a Muslim woman through India’s freedom struggle and beyond

Conceal the Way You Dream

Anjum Hasan

The daily hope and despair have never appeared more vivid and more insignificant, the abstractions of politics never felt this gigantic and remote, and never has religion seemed so weak a palliative