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Dec 13, 13 • 501 Views • cult • Yash Thakur • No Comments
The art of travel is to deviate from one’s plans. The plan was to finish work on Friday, and leave for Kasol early morning the next day. But with a bag that contained a spare T-shirt, a few books, pens, some ID, a deodorant and with a fickle mind, I...
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Aug 14, 13 • 358 Views • in.sight • Rimsha Minocha • No Comments
Age of Innocence Met her in the Pune local to Lonavala. This tiny-tot came to me asking for money. Danced to the bucket-beats, and performed a summer-salt. In the end, she earned what she had come for. And in return posed for a photo, with not a smile but...
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Jul 22, 13 • 558 Views • cult • Tanushree Kulkarni • No Comments
In a world where women are going highly overboard with the concept of feminism – where sex toys are being bought as a mark of independence and men would almost curse writers like Virginia Woolf for being amongst the first to stimulate the idea, it becomes...
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Jun 26, 11 • 185 Views • Books, Reviews • Lipi Mehta • No Comments
I wonder what kind of imagination Art Spiegelman must possess to come up with something as brilliant as Maus (German for ‘Mouse’). This graphic novel is a depiction of the two phases of the author’s father Vladek Spiegelman – one, of during the Nazi...
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Apr 29, 11 • 282 Views • Books, Reviews • Lipi Mehta • No Comments
At first glance, Rikin Khamar’s The Lotus Queen seems like a cross between William Dalrymple’s The Last Mughal and Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee’s Palace of Illusions. However, it manages to isolate itself from these comparisons because it explores an...
