Art Beat: Tribal Treats

Art Beat: Tribal Treats

When Arts of the Earth – Delhi’s first art gallery dedicated solely to folk and tribal art – opened in the capital last year, its director Meena Verma was sceptical about how the gallery’s ‘rustic and simple’ fare would be received by a city that is residence to celebrated artists like S.H Raza, Ram Kumar, […]

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The Family Hotel-Part 8

The Family Hotel-Part 8

  Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction.  Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests […]

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The Family Hotel-Part 7

The Family Hotel-Part 7

Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction.  Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests become […]

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Missed Flight-3

Missed Flight-3

Writer Rani Rao Innes pens an insightful three-part story about the need for freedom and the desire for roots, exclusively for the readers of Unboxed Writers.  This is the final part. They went early to the station and the train hadn’t arrived. Sipping a hot paper cup of masala chai, Sapna watched the ‘railway children’ running […]

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Deliciously Honest…

Deliciously Honest…

  Some books live up to their authors. But very few authors live up to their books. In an industry packed with more ambition than talent, writers have  unwillingly or enthusiastically embraced the fact that they and not just just their books have to be branded and marketed. At a time when writing is becoming a vanity exercise fuelled by the need to […]

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The Family Hotel-Part 6

The Family Hotel-Part 6

  Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction.  Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests […]

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Missed Flight-2

Missed Flight-2

Writer Rani Rao Innes pens an insightful three-part story about the need for freedom and the desire for roots, exclusively for the readers of Unboxed Writers.  “Are you out of your mind?” Maya was looking at her with a mixture of concern and exasperation. They were sitting in the little balcony of Maya’s flat sipping chai […]

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Missed Flight-1

Missed Flight-1

Writer Rani Rao Innes pens an insightful three-part story about the need for freedom and the desire for roots, exclusively for the readers of Unboxed Writers.  She could not believe she had missed her flight at such a time in her life. Her wedding was in a week. Most of her extended family had already reached Bangalore. […]

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