‘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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‘Pilgrim Nation’ by Devdutt Pattanaik
Introduction 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 MoreSher Singh and the Hot-Water Bottle: An Excerpt from Ruskin Bond’s ‘A Gallery of Rascals’
It’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…
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