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Sarika Sharma In the 1970s, celebrated photographer Kulwant Roy was diagnosed with blood cancer, a disease then shrouded in mystery. Aware that the end would come soon, he began handing over his archive to Aditya Arya, a family friend and...

R Umamaheshwari Simultaneous conversations and multiple dialogues run across generations, it seems, at the Ivy Lodge in Kasauli. Be it in the paintings of Amrita Sher-Gil or the art of her nephew, Vivan Sundaram, signifying political expressions with objects, sound...

Rahul verma Despite being a die-hard supporter of Spain, I felt a little sorry for France when it lost in the football Euro Cup last week. France has a good team. To top it, the country has just gone...

Saima Iqbal   Standing tall at the end of a long avenue of poplars, the century-old Amar Singh College is one of the cornerstones in Kashmir’s educational landscape. Nestled within the residential neighbourhood of Wazir Bagh, the sprawling 40-acre campus is...

Bindu Menon In Intizar Husain’s story ‘Clouds’, a boy is perturbed by the disappearance of clouds and goes searching for them. He asks everyone if they have seen a passing cloud, but no one seems to know or care. One...

Despite the respite, monsoon also brings a higher risk of exposure to various viruses, bacteria, and other infections due to the high moisture content in the air. Dr Puneet Mittal, a consultant physician based in Chandigarh, says viral fever, dengue,...

Yashbala Long before philanthropist Sudha Murty called for a government-sponsored vaccination programme to combat cervical cancer, her Infosys Foundation had granted funds to the Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, for setting up of a cancer registry and screening project — the...

Ravi Gupta Mridula was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) after the birth of her first child when she was only 25. Stiff, swollen, painful joints, particularly of hands, made even routine movements near-impossible. “Even picking up my baby caused extreme...

Brijeshwar Singh Every aspiring singer still wants to sing his songs. Contemporary music directors from Pritam to MM Kreem to AR Rahman study his moody melodies. Shreya Ghoshal says that if a singer wants to learn when to be loud...

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry Charles Baudelaire, a French poet and philosopher, wrote: “Here we have a man whose job it is to collect the day’s refuse in the capital. Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost,...

Commercially prepared fritters are often refried, with oil oozing. Fry these at home in small quantities and size to celebrate the rainy season

Nonika Singh How many of us can see life more clearly, let alone sense the luminosity in it, in the light of death…. How many of us consider ageing a privilege, and not an affliction? As author Kamla Kapur turns...

Yogesh Snehi Partition violence during the intervening months of July to September 1947 led to an exodus of the Muslim population of east Punjab to west Punjab. The tragedy that unfolded on either side has been retold by a generation...

Animesh Singh His mother Jaywanti Devi was an ardent follower of ‘Bhole Baba’ — former Uttar Pradesh Police constable Suraj Pal — and took his wife Rajkumari and eight-year-old daughter Bhoomi along on the fateful morning of July 2 for...

Tracing the vanishing ornamental legacies of Shimla’s built heritage

Teja Lele BIG, fat raindrops kiss the parched surface of the earth, the smell of petrichor creating an enchanting ambience. From the lakefront restaurant I’m sitting at, I watch the rain make its way into Lake Pichola, the drops creating...

Joanna Lobo THIS is the mushroom capital of the world, I am consistently told. It’s my first visit to Philadelphia (Philly) and I quickly learn one fact: they love their superlatives, and aren’t ashamed to say it out loud. Philly...

Shubhadeep Choudhury On June 8, after the Congress Working Committee passed a resolution urging Rahul Gandhi to take up the post of Leader of the Opposition (LoP), he refrained from agreeing to the proposal there and then, saying he would...

Sreevalsan Thiyyadi The pine trees at Mussoorie reminded young CV Chandrasekhar of the hill-slopes in Shimla where he grew up as a child. The lanky artiste had just reached the Himalayan range, travelling 2,500 km from Madras. The metropolis was...

Renu Sud Sinha Veteran documentary makers Kavita Bahl and Nandan Saxena picked up yet another award recently for their latest project, ‘Lakshmanrekha’, that tells the story of a school dropout who revived his village’s water sources in the deserts...

Malvika Kaul It’s been almost six months since Chittaranjan Tripathy became director of the National School of Drama (NSD). An ex-student of India’s premier theatre training institute, Tripathy continues to have mixed feelings about his role as the NSD...

Rahul Verma A nephew who runs a restaurant in the United States introduced me to Creole-Cajun food, an interest that I later honed with the books of James Lee Burke. It helped me answer a riddle that had been plaguing...

Alka Raza   The tomb of Khwaja Khizr at Sonepat in Haryana is not on the tourist map of Delhi-NCR. It comes up rarely in conversations of heritage enthusiasts. Yet, the historical landmark, built during 1522-1524 by Ibrahim Lodhi, has...

Ramu Damodaran Muchkund Dubey passed away on June 26, the 80th United Nations Charter Day. He was 12 when that foundational document was signed by 51 countries, including his still not Independent own. Less than three years earlier, his...

Sonia Wigh In 1799, at the age of 19, Ranjit Singh conquered Lahore and began his campaign to bring the diverse misls of Punjab under his control. Over the subsequent four decades of his rule, the Maharaja resisted strong aggressors,...