Palestine and 19 years of the Second Intifada as Israel goes to Poll
19 years ago, there arrived a September which introduced the world to what has come to be referred to as the Second Intifada.
The Telegraph / September 2019 / Politics
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19 years ago, there arrived a September which introduced the world to what has come to be referred to as the Second Intifada.
The Telegraph / September 2019 / Politics
11 September. One day, two stories of 'liberation'. America's War on Terror, and Operation Polo, Hyderabad.
The Telegraph / September 2019 / General Features
The Brahmo Samaj was founded on 20 August, 1828 in Kolkata by Rammohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore
The Telegraph / August 2019 / General Features
The spectre of censorship still haunts the arts in India, not unlike what Utpal Dutt encountered all those years ago.
The Telegraph / August 2019 / Profile
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016.
The Quint / January 2016 / Videos
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016.
The Quint / January 2016 / Videos
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016.
The Quint / January 2016 / Videos
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016.
The Quint / January 2016 / Videos
Delhi Queer Pride 2016.
The Quint / December 2016 / General Features
Delhi Queer Pride 2015.
The Quint / November 2015 / Videos
A fun interview with Nargis Fakhri
The Quint / November 2015 / Entertainment
The bloody history of Hyderabad Liberation Day.
The Quint / September 2015 / General Features
Arundhati Roy and the art of storytelling.
The Quint / November 2015 / General Features
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016: Curtain Raiser.
The Quint / December 2015 / General Features
Revisiting the works of Vijay Tendulkar.
The Quint / January 2016 / General Features
Following Rohith Vemula's suicide.
The Quint / January 2016 / Politics
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016: Day 2.
The Quint / January 2016 / General Features
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016: Day 3.
The Quint / January 2016 / General Features
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016: Day 4.
The Quint / January 2016 / General Features
Jaipur Lit Fest 2016: Day 5.
The Quint / January 2016 / General Features
Nathuram Godse and the people who still revere him.
The Quint / November 2016 / General Features
The Frost-Nixon Interviews and US Polls 2016.
The Quint / March 2016 / Mood Piece
Bengal Polls 2016, curtain raiser.
The Quint / March 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
The minority community of Nandigram.
The Quint / March 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Talking to people in Nandigram, 9 years after the pogrom.
The Quint / March 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Bengal Polls 2016: In West Midnapore
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Bengal Polls 2016: In West Midnapore
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Visiting 9 years after the pogrom.
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Day 1, Bengal polls 2016.
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
The Vivekananda Flyover tragedy in Kolkata.
The Quint / April 2016 / Videos
An interview with Md Salim.
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
How the Vivekananda Road Flyover tragedy would affect the 2016 elections.
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Speaking with young voters at Presidency University, Kolkata.
The Quint / April 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Visiting the abandoned Tata Nano Factory in Singur during West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016.
The Quint / May 2016 / West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Two of Neruda's poems on his birthday.
The Quint / July 2016 / Podcast
A podcast of Ruskin Bond's short story on his birthday.
The Quint / June 2016 / Podcast
A podcast of Ruskin Bond's short story on his birthday.
The Quint / June 2016 / Podcast
On Garfield's birthday and the politics of being lazy.
The Quint / June 2016 / Mood Piece
A video about the twelve brutal caste atrocities in India.
The Quint / July 2016 / Videos
On the growing intolerance towards food cultures in India.
The Quint / August 2016 / Book Review
On India's Independence Day, remembering Jogendranath Mandal, the only Indian minister in Jinnah's cabinet.
The Quint / August 2016 / General Features
Dr Ambedkar wanted to burn the Constitution he wrote.
The Quint / August 2016 / General Features
On Delhi University dropping Bipan Chandra's seminal textbook.
The Quint / September 2016 / General Features
On the biriyani police in Haryana.
The Quint / September 2016 / Videos
IS Onam a casteist festival?
The Quint / September 2016 / General Features
Dalit singers in New Delhi.
The Quint / September 2016 / Videos
On the Dalit Swabhiman Rally and the renewed dalit movement in India.
The Quint / September 2016 / Videos
On the anniversary of the Poona Pact.
The Quint / September 2016 / Politics
BHU students protest against policing.
The Quint / September 2016 / General Features
In the aftermath of a Haryana University student staging a play on Mahasweta Devi's story.
The Quint / September 2016 / Politics
Remembering Bagat Singh, the anti-caste Marxist.
The Quint / September 2016 / General Features
On PM Modi's invoking Jatayu to glorify his surgical strike.
The Quint / October 2016 / Politics
On the Mumbai Film Festival MAMI cancelling classic Pakistani film Jago Hua Savera.
The Quint / October 2016 / Videos
Missing JNU PhD scholar Najeeb Ahmad's family appeals.
The Quint / October 2016 / Videos
Student protest against missing PhD scholar Najeeb Ahmed in JNU divided.
The Quint / October 2016 / Politics
About Karan Johar agreeing to pay Rs 5 crore to release his film.
The Quint / October 2016 / Videos
Talking abut different Ramayanas.
The Quint / October 2016 / General Features
Checking out cash-only businesses of Old Delhi after demonetisation.
The Quint / December 2016 / Videos
The first day banks opened after demonetisation was announced.
The Quint / November 2016 / Videos
Demonetisation 2016: How to exchange old notes.
The Quint / November 2016 / Videos
India's Defence Minister on the No First Use nuclear policy.
The Quint / November 2016 / Videos
How demonetisation hatched an illegal economy.
The Quint / November 2016 / Videos
Remembering the polemics of Jyotiba Phule.
The Quint / November 2016 / Politics
How demonetisation hit street hawkers in Delhi NCR.
The Quint / December 2016 / Videos
Delhi’s migrant populations have long been ghettoised, none quite as the African community has, but I see that voices of dissent are slowly gaining volume, as “outsider” communities finally stake their claim in the great urban conundrum.
The Sunday Guardian / August 2013 / Comment Piece
The IPTA Bill of 2006 contained clauses that would prove detrimental to sex workers. Agitations aided in the removal of those clauses, but recent speculation about the re-introduction of the Bill in Parliament has sparked old fears
The Sunday Guardian / November 2013 / Comment Piece
The gang rape of a 23-year-old student in the Capital has sparked off a number of debates and demonstrations. At a recent protest, Tanushree Bhasin and I find that voices of reason are often lost amidst blazing torches and heady sloganeering
The Sunday Guardian / December 2012 / Comment Piece
As black and yellow taxis slowly fade to oblivion, I find that these vestiges of the past are still preferred modes of transport for those who live outside the affluence-bubble, and discovers operators responding to a changing market.
The Sunday Guardian / September 2013 / Comment Piece
Once a hippie hotspot, today Paharganj stands-out as an island of organised chaos, where free spirits from all across the globe congregate to celebrate life every day.
The Sunday Guardian / April 2013 / Cover Story
Every year, the Delhi University Students’ Union elections signal a flurry of excitement, activity and maneuvering, as candidates make lavish promises and votes are bartered freely. Yet if you look past the hoopla, core grievances remain unaddressed.
The Sunday Guardian / September 2013 / Cover Story
Graffiti, counted among the four crucial elements of hip-hop culture, is changing the landscape of the capital’s urban villages with St.Art Delhi.
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Cover Story
The market in India for English TV programming is already estimated at 1 million, a figure that will only rise as the appeal broadens from its current urban concentration. Digitisation has allowed the big networks to tap a niche but growing market that is
The Sunday Guardian / November 2013 / Cover Story
Bengali by birth, wanderer at heart, I learn a lesson or two about the differences between language and dialect when bid to speak only in Hindi for a week.
The Sunday Guardian / December 2013 / Cover Story
The R-Day parade, putting on display India’s military might and cultural diversity, is no longer a true representation of a nation in flux - Abhirup Dam & Nidhi Gupta
The Sunday Guardian / January 2014 / Cover Story
Dr Veena Shatrugna talks to me about how government policies like the Recommended Dietary Allowance create a kind of institutionalisation of vegetarianism.
The Sunday Guardian / November 2013 / Finer Focus Interview
Premanand Gajvee’s immensely powerful Marathi plays are victim to the lost-in-translation effect, something that theatre magnifies significantly
The Sunday Guardian / October 2013 / Book Review
Michael Pollan’s book is a masterly treatise on the uniquely symbolic and universal nature of cooking. Read it to discover how the act itself is often transcendental
The Sunday Guardian / August 2013 / Book Review
Nemai Ghosh is best known for photographing Satyajit Ray’s cinematic life, spanning a remarkable career. Yet his huge archive is only now coming to light.
The Sunday Guardian / March 2013 / Profile
Review: Amrita Sher-Gil birth centenary exhibition
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014
Recently, at Amar Kanwar's multi-channel video installation Lightning Testimonies at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, I was yet again faced with a production which welcomingly breaks the bourgeois and patriarchal comfort of the audience.
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Art Review
A mixed medium exhibition that uses photo-prints, video installations and a single acrylic-on-canvas piece.
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Art Review
Review of Atul Dodiya's exhibition at the NGMA, titled Experiments with Truth: Atul Dodiya, Works 1981-2013
The Sunday Guardian / November 2013 / Art Review
The exhibition is culled from Bartholomew's own archive, entailing the years he spent in Calcutta during the mid 70s, on a commission to shoot stills for Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khiladi and a few subsequent productions.
The Sunday Guardian / January 2013 / Art Review
On Penguin's decision to pulp Doniger's The Hindus.
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Comment Piece
Review: Coke Studio Pakistan Season 6
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Music
New science fiction television shows
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Television
When I went to look for Christmas festivities in Delhi.
The Sunday Guardian / December 2013 / Mood Piece
The desi valentine days.
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / General Features
37 years of the Frost-Nixon Interviews
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / General Features
Located 2,960 metres above sea level, Kheer Ganga is a breathtaking meadow surrounded by snow-capped mountains that nestle hot springs. I write about the difficult yet perspective-altering trek to this paradisaical spot.
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Travel
The Blue Lotus music festival brought a litany of marginalised and syncretic traditions to the fore. Walking along the town’s ghats was an exercise in discovering the confluence of the spiritual and the musical
The Sunday Guardian / March 2013 / Travel
Talking about fading languages on International Mother Language Day
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / General Features
Of temples and Islamic monuments in Delhi
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Comment Piece
My Delhi chai trail.
The Sunday Guardian / January 2014 / Food And Beverage
On sustainable farming.
The Sunday Guardian / January 2014 / General Features
My guide to a christmas dinner.
The Sunday Guardian / December 2013 / Food And Beverage
Review: Eggspectation
The Sunday Guardian / March 2013 / Restaurant Review
Review: Imperfecto
The Sunday Guardian / March 2013 / Restaurant Review
Rara Avis: Anniversary
The Sunday Guardian / March 2013 / Food And Beverage
Review: Le Bistro du Parc
The Sunday Guardian / August 2013 / Restaurant Review
Review: Ahoy Asia
The Sunday Guardian / August 2013 / Restaurant Review
Sunday brunch at The Lalit
The Sunday Guardian / December 2013 / Food And Beverage
Review: La Brezza
The Sunday Guardian / January 2014 / Restaurant Review
Delhi's Mallu food heaven
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Food And Beverage
How to go about becoming a wine connoisseur
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Food And Beverage
Review: Asia Seven
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014 / Restaurant Review
Review: The Beer Cafe Biggie
The Sunday Gaurdian / February 2014 / Restaurant Review
Review: New menu at Wasabi
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Restaurant Review
Review : The Wine Company
The Sunday Guardian / March 2014 / Restaurant Review
Perfume and food pairing
The Sunday Guardian / April 2014 / Food And Beverage
Review: Zerruco by Zilli
The Sunday Guardian / April 2014 / Restaurant Review
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