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...
by Bindu Gopal Rao | Jul 28, 2025
(July 26, 2025) It was the year 2011. Just three days into a new role at one of India’s largest business houses, Jayanthi Bhagatha who was then an employee of Tata Advanced Materials, received a tense call that would change the trajectory of her life. On the other end...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 24, 2025
(July 24, 2025) Each year on the Fourth of July, while Americans gather to celebrate independence with fireworks and parades, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launches a quieter but no less dazzling tradition: its annual list of Great Immigrants. Since 2006, this...
by Amrita Priya | Jul 16, 2025
(July 16, 2025) When Adidas replaced football icon David Beckham with a 93-year-old Sikh marathoner in its global Impossible is Nothing campaign, the world took notice. The man was Fauja Singh, slight in frame, wrapped in white, his turban neatly tied. He ran his...
