Advertisements Shubhashree Sangameswaran was a software engineer, decoding programming questions with her technical expertise and poise. Then she became a life chronicler. One fine day in Bangalore, where pleasant weather makes up for the congestion on roads, she began to unravel human hearts. Preservation movement: Founder of My Life Chronicles and personal historian Sumit Chowdhury… Continue reading In this book of history, you are the hero
Tag: Journalism
The girl with the peacock tattoo
Advertisements One evening in February last year, a girl raised many eyebrows in the conservative Jat neighbourhood of Matiala in west Delhi. She was returning home from work when a group of young men passed lewd comments. Almost in a rage, the girl hopped off her autorickshaw and grabbed one of the boys by his… Continue reading The girl with the peacock tattoo
Theatre | Hullabaloo in the hinterland
Fringe groups from small towns are revving up the theatre scene with themes that have mass appeal
Delhi’s Belly | An equal music
As the first batch of girls graduate from one of the Walled City’s oldest schools, it prepares for more change
Holidays by Shatabdi | On a train, spotting birds, scaling mountains
Advertisements Trains carry a nostalgic value, relics of a childhood when holidays began and ended with rail journeys. The Shatabdis, Indian Railways’ super-fast trains that connect the metros to tourist, pilgrimage and business centres, still retain that quintessential charm, says Lonely Planet’s latest travel guide. In a pocketbook format, Holidays by Shatabdi lists 30 possible… Continue reading Holidays by Shatabdi | On a train, spotting birds, scaling mountains
Vanessa Able | Freewheeling around India
Vanessa Able travelled around India in a Tata Nano in 2010 and wrote her book ‘The Nanologues’
A disciple’s tribute to Pandit Birju Maharaj
Kathak exponent Saswati Sen on her memoir on Pandit Birju Maharaj and how the maestro gave the dance form a lyrical beauty
Book Review | Manoj and Babli: A Hate Story
chilling account of an ‘honour killing’ exposes some brutal truths about contemporary India
Omair Ahmad | ‘Objectivity is a dream’
The author balances myths, history and politics in his new book on Bhutan
Book Review | A Matter of Rats
Unruly rats, all-pervasive filth and old myths in an engaging biography of Patna
True Stories: Reconstructing Sonali Mukherjee
She has undergone 25 surgeries in 10 years and excruciating pain just to look human again. The acid attack survivor still walks a tightrope between life and death
#Elections2019: How two Delhi constituencies voted
Everyone loves Sunday mornings. In this part of the national capital, young men and women find time for fitness. Their morning runs on this day have become early noon jogs on tree-lined streets; the tree branches mask their sweaty faces from the blistering summer sun. A few cyclists compete with cars driving out of the colony and tiny dairy kiosks have opened for early morning milk buyers. It’s easy to spot the polling booth …
INS Viraat controversy: how the Indian media kept discrediting itself
The only way to tackle the intrusion of the past in the political debate of today is to discuss it—to explain the myths or facts that exist and to confront them with the right questions and a dogged pursuit of the truth. Journalists are primary witnesses of history when it’s made. There are enormous dangers of misinterpretation when historical facts enter the realm of politics. With the INS Viraat controversy, an unwelcome, opportunistic and largely immoral attempt at misrepresentation may have been made. But by harping on to conflicting and uncorroborated versions of the event, Indian media not just kept discrediting itself, it also lost the opportunity to shape the historical narrative objectively, truthfully, credibly.