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    SPB: Parva illa Sir, you will still be around

    By Anshu / September 26, 2020

    I grew up in Pondicherry. I distinctly remember one evening, when my English teacher, Mrs Hawkins, came up to my father and said that she had to take me to see Shankarabharanam. She really wanted me to…

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  • People,  Silver linings

    The walk towards light

    By Anshu / August 11, 2020

    I might have easily ignored the Whatsapp forward which talked about India’s first visually impaired company secretary. But my eyes fell on the name. Turab Chimthanawala. Surely, it couldn’t be the little Turab I knew. It was…

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  • Films,  Heritage,  People

    The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray’s labour of love

    By Anshu / May 7, 2020

    There is a distinct disadvantage of seeing works of art very early in life. I saw Satyajit Ray’s black and white films somewhere in the late eighties, when I was in high school. I was aware that…

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  • Folklore,  Heritage,  Musings,  People

    We need Kabir again

    By Anshu / May 17, 2019

    . निंदक नियरे राखिए, ऑंगन कुटी छवाय, बिन पानी, साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय। (Build a hut for your critics in your courtyard, and keep them close to you. They will scrub you clean, without water, without…

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  • Art,  Heritage,  People,  Travelogues

    Maata ni Pachhedi: Celebrating the Mother Goddess

    By Anshu / February 18, 2019

    Somewhere among the pages of a thirty year-old diary, which I maintained as a schoolgirl, I still have “Maata ni Pachhedi” scrawled. The diary had questions from Quiz Time and India Quiz, and everytime Siddhartha Basu asked…

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  • Events,  Music,  People,  Travelogues

    Usha Uthup: The bad girl with Kanjeevaram sneakers

    By Anshu / February 15, 2019

    Dressed in a gorgeous Kanjeevaram silk saree, her trademark big bindi adorning her forehead, she climbs up the stage gingerly. She is 71 and her hair has streaks of grey. She looks the complete antithesis of what…

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  • Musings,  People

    The reward for a lifetime of work

    By Anshu / February 1, 2019

    I received this picture on a family Whatsapp group yesterday. And this morning it was all over the papers. The lady in the blue saree is my Bua, my father’s youngest sister. Dr Geeta Kumari. She heads…

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  • Art,  Heritage,  People,  Travelogues

    The revival of Ajrakh

    By Anshu / January 31, 2019

    I have always been fond of the Indigo range sold by Fab India and own several of their block-printed kurtas and some sarees. The patterns and aesthetics of Ajrakh have always appealed to me. But I knew…

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  • Books,  Events,  People

    Jeffrey Archer: I’m more a story teller than a writer

    By Anshu / January 30, 2019

    Jeffrey Archer sells more copies of his novels in India than in any other country in the world. He narrates an amusing anecdote where he stepped off the plane in Mumbai and was on a taxi to…

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  • History,  People

    Gandhi and leprosy

    By Anshu / January 30, 2019

    When he lived in Sevagram, Mahatma Gandhi used to take long walks. One cold winter day in December 1939, as he stepped out of the ashram, he encountered a man who was carrying a bundle in his…

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