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I am fishing for the right quote by Manto to begin this write-up. As I unearth some old books from my college days, I realise that Manto is not someone, who can be put away between the pages of  history ...Read More

Longing For Manto

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To make a jungle safari spine-chilling, breathtaking, and totally remarkable, you will need a driver-cum-guide who knows the jungle like the back of his hand, a freshly prepared unfenced camp site, a lean and dark Masai for protection, eerie animal ...Read More

Call Of The Wild

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Dear annoying cell phone user, I am writing to you in the hope that this will somehow reach your  brain and   make you understand just what you inflict upon us. While I am addressing you singularly, I would also like to ...Read More

Time To Switch Off

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Stashed away in an old cupboard, inside a bag neatly folded around its contents, are old memories calling out to me from photo albums. This overtly melodramatic wistfulness has been triggered by my crashed hard disks that contained all the photographs of all my trips made ...Read More

Losing It MB By MB

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The inspiration for this article comes from my love for street-shopping which to me is fascinating in many ways. First it combines my love for walking with shopping. You do have that option in malls but the local markets in ...Read More

Street Culture In A Bag

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“The film is strictly for adults,” said Aamir Khan in what looked like a mix between a Tata Sky ad and an anti-smoking campaign as the three actors of  Delhi Belly teased him about ruining his own reputation. While MBA students are ...Read More

The Cult Of Filth?

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  I was 11 when I went for a 24 day trek on the Garhwal Himalayas with a group–The Explorers and Adventurers. It was nothing even close to a school trip; these were professional trekkers some of whom had scaled the ...Read More

Love At First Sip