The city where the sun rises from Gomti and sets at the residency, where the day starts with sherbet and ends with biryani, where azaan fills up the sky when…
Urbanisation is key to enhance comfort levels, improve the standard of living and avail benefits of various opportunities available in urban areas as compared to villages. It is practically not…
There’s a very beloved and widespread lullaby in Bengal, which mothers used to sing to make their babies fall asleep. Although it sounds like any other bedtime song, it has…
It’s 4 in the morning. The narrow streets of North Kolkata are still waterlogged with last night’s drizzle. It’s not morning yet; there’s still some time for the daybreak. Faint…
It’s 8 pm in a scarcely crowded restaurant, and I’m returning from a gig with a ginormous keyboard around my arm. I find myself constantly looking over my shoulder, never…
The term social distancing is misleading because in times like these we need to stay emotionally and socially connected by keeping physically distance. Till a few months ago almost nobody…
My days in isolation have been pretty dramatic. I had gone to visit my parents in Delhi for Holi on 7th March along with my husband and younger son and…
I don’t know about whether the persons walking on roads, railway tracks, cycling with bags on their back and handlebars are migrant labourers or not. I don’t care what is…
There are common things in India where people go from place to place in search of employment and labour work. The government servants, public and private sectors and others go…
Now we claim that men and women are equal, right!! But I have few questions regarding this If men and women are equal then why in most of the scenarios…