‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Khushwant Singh
My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once…
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My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she had once…
Read MoreJacintha was angry with the world for making her what she had become. In particular, it was a few individuals she held responsible. Sons of whores, daughters of bitches, may…
Read MoreBeing a ‘Woman Director’ Up until a few years ago, the label of being a ‘woman director’ used to upset me. When asked, “How is it to be a woman…
Read MoreKnowledge as Heritage It is repeatedly said that education is critical to the making of a civilization. In its different forms through the centuries it has been and is…
Read MoreIntroduction Once upon a time there was a boy called Shravan-kumar who travelled with a bamboo sling on his shoulders. On either side of this sling were two baskets….
Read MoreChapter 1 1.1 ‘You too will marry a boy I choose,’ said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter. Lata avoided the maternal imperative by looking around the great…
Read More‘[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth.’ —His Holiness the Dalai Lama Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the best known Zen…
Read MoreBlood-red, the fallen blossoms lay on the snow, even more striking when laid bare. On the trees they blended with the foliage. On the ground, on those patches of recent…
Read MoreAfter a long crawl, through a narrow cave, in the hills of Jammu, you finally arrive at Vaishnodevi, embodied as three outcroppings of rock, draped with red cloth with gold…
Read MoreTHE LOOTING OF INDIA Durant’s outrage – the conquest of India by a corporation – the East India Company – the deindustrialization of India – destruction of Indian textiles…
Read MoreMountains are often defined by their height, though the summit of a peak is nothing more than the point where it ends, giving way to clouds and sky. The true…
Read MoreIt’s been many years since Sher Singh, of village Solti, came to my rescue. At the time I was living right at the top of the Landour hill, in a…
Read MoreIn the summer of 2009, I trekked to the Gangotri glacier, the rapidly melting source of the Bhagirathi—one of the two glacial streams that join to form the Ganga….
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