This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking and dancing on obscene songs, calling girl dancers who were not just dancing — but making vulgar and sexual actions at a festival so rooted in bhakti was just disgusting. Let […]
Faces hidden, yet the Himachali aesthetic alone steals the show. In November 2025, these words, paired with mesmerising photographs, flooded timelines across Instagram, X and YouTube shorts. Captured were the enigmatic figures draped in vibrant Kinnauri Pattu shawls, layered with heavy silver jewellery and crowned with flowers, while their faces remained hidden behind the deep […]
In the winter of 1911, as the dust of the Delhi Durbar settled over the plains of Shahjahanabad, King George V laid the foundation stone for a capital that was intended to be an eternal testament to British supremacy. It is said that Edward Lutyens, surveying the scrubland of Raisina Hill, envisioned a city that […]
Taking a bath was a simple activity, back in the 1980s. While many of our homes had bathrooms, men seldom had a bath inside. The children, almost as a rule, bathed in the open, under the hand pump, which were common in every other home. And children didn’t mean just infants or toddlers. We were […]