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Whatever your opinion of the politics or policies of independent India’s first crop of leaders, the ones who had fought for independence,...

(Taking off from this list .) Alcapone: Percussion with a baseball bat. Aldente: Signal to the soloist to just noodle a bit while th...

This a more-links-added, lightly edited, slightly rearranged version of a Twitter thread I made, which starts here . My parents Clar...

Last night, I went for a walk pretty late; it was midnight when I started out. The roads were almost deserted, as is natural in a resident...

For Joni Mitchell  Pure of note, so smoothly sung Full of health and strong of lung Each word like crystal goblets rung  Heard that song tha...

Welcome to a little crowd-sourced project, mapping and listing indie bookstores in India. There are 131 of them so far. (Last edit: 7th O...

In middle age you learn to deal With minor stuff like heartbreak What really stabs you in the soul Is recurrence of a toothache

The essentials. Caferati Listings carries opportunities for writers — calls for entries and submissions to contests and anthologies...

Table Talk with Varun Deshpande Date: 23 January, 2022 Time: 21:00 IST In India, contrary to some western belief, most of us are...

There was a time in advertising, when a lot of ad copy started with ‘Chances are…’ And back when I was a junior trainee dogsbody in Linta...