Navratri: Nine nights, many Indias
Navratri celebrations in India
Navratri means "nine nights," and the name is about the only thing that stays fixed. Across India the festival celebrates the...
Nana Patekar (1951–2026): The restless outsider who stayed one
Nana Patekar
Vishwanath Patekar was born in 1951 in Murud-Janjira, a coastal town in Maharashtra's Raigad district, to a modest Marathi family. He was a...
Navratri calendar gets the Down Under treatment
On Sunday morning, thousands of homes across Australia will set up the Navratri kalash. Many will already have a muhurat. It probably came on...
Cutting Chai with Neha Kale
Cutting Chai with Lakshmi Ganapathy is a monthly series of bite-sized interviews with prominent South Asians showcasing their career and personality and celebrating their...
Discovering Kazakhstan’s wild heart
Kazakhstan
“Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan - which did you like more?” A friend asked shortly after I returned from Kazakhstan, having visited Uzbekistan just the...
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