Essays

• HT Nizamuddin 

  When I first moved into the colony of Nizamuddin West,  in New Delhi,  friends and family asked why.   I had no real answer except West is where you see the village that has grown into the...[Read More]
  
  
  

• Kathmandu Diary 

  Mountains are a calling. Climbing them self-flagellation. But when an assortment of Everest veterans and film makers descended upon  Kathmandu to participate  in the 2^nd International ...[Read More]   

   

• Parsees put some fire in the belly of HK history By Manju Kak

  They are just names now.  Forgotten names.  Instances in history.  In the Parsee cemetery the silence of the graves which mark the lives of those who helped begin it all lie in sylvan surroundings...[Read More]  

   

• Unity in Diversity: The Indian 

  As much as it was before, the fight is on between man and man.  But more than ever it seems to be amongst the peoples of the same country; amongst the ethnic population and the ...[Read More]  

   

• About Writing  

  But after all writing is but a guided dream,  wrote Jorge Luis Borges.  Is writing  about boundless fantasy then?  Would Edward de Bono  paint it  lilac, purple or  mauve in his special language...[Read More]  

   

• Negotiating Literary Silences: The Mutiny of 1857 

  Today in a burgeoning economy when the Indian Railways has recorded profit the nation forgets a time when  trains had become the time keepers of the Indian nation. Whole villages sought...[Read More]