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...
Indian Link Loves: Our October Favourites
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How do you accurately portray a town? Through facts or personal testimony? Writer Anjum Hasan suggests it’s through the latter. Her latest work Hometown:...
Smit Machchhar: 30 seconds, 174 lives, one extraordinary act
Smit Machchhar
Thirty seconds.
That’s roughly how long it took flydubai flight FZ1073 to plunge nearly 14,000 feet after a violent confrontation erupted inside its cockpit...
Why is women’s safety still a question mark?
Fifteen years ago, I was a student at Delhi University (DU). Growing up in Delhi meant the reflexes came before the reading lists: keys...
Gandhi, Patrick White and Australia: A race possessed of understanding?
Patrick White, Gandhi and Australia
On 9 June 1958, I arrived in Sydney, a teenager from Nadi on my way to study at Delhi University.
I...
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