(December 28, 2022) When AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism of the United States government, called up Krishna Vavilala informing that he has been selected for the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award 2022, the long-time Houstonian...
(December 26, 2022) When Nadia Hakani is on the stage, she leaves the world behind. The chaos backstage does not matter to her nor do the technical glitches which may end up snapping the sound, abruptly. Come what may, she remains upbeat. There is no other way to do...
(January 19, 2023) One of the crowded alleys in Malviya Nagar takes you to the workshop of Silaiwali – a place that’s a world of its own for the many Hazara women who fled the atrocities of the Taliban to make a temporary home in the heart of New Delhi....
(December 16, 2022) Until about a year ago, Niti Nadarajah was a full-time in-house lawyer who had practised law for 19 years at a stretch, climbing the corporate ladder one step at a time, ambitious and confident. When the Covid induced lockdown gave her some time...
Thirty years had passed since Bem Le Hunte first stood on the doorstep of Mongrace in Kolkata, her first school. Her spirits lifted as she heard the children inside singing about “a little duck with a feather in its cap,” a song she still remembered. Back...
