by Vikram Sharma | Jan 16, 2026
(January 16, 2026) The Indian passport just got more muscle. According to the recent Henley Passport Index 2026, India now ranks 80th worldwide, marking a steady rise from 85th place last year. The Indian passport currently offers visa-free access to 55 destinations,...
by Vikram Sharma | Jan 3, 2026
(January 3, 2026) Unlike in the past when Indians left either as indentured labourers under British rule, or as skilled professionals such as doctors and engineers migrating since the 1970s, it is now the wealthy who are increasingly leaving the country. So...
by Amrita Priya | Dec 22, 2025
(December 22, 2025) When Barack Obama released his annual list of favourite films, books and music for 2025, it carried the ritual he has maintained since his White House years. “As 2025 comes to a close, I’m continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 19, 2025
(August 19, 2025) For those who left India’s shores — by ship in the 19th century or by plane in the decades that followed — photographs were often the only way to hold on to what was left behind. Faded portraits tucked into suitcases, studio shots mailed across...
by Vikram Sharma | Aug 9, 2025
(August 9, 2025) Back in 1992, when Nobel Laureate poet and playwright Derek Walcott recognised ‘Ram Lila’ as no ordinary drama and went on to craft his speech around the motif of the open-air Ram Lila in Trinidad (the tiny, almost invisible island on the globe and...
