City Blogs

The smell of nawabs in tehzeeb and kebabs

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…

Kanishka Saxena

Kanishka Saxena @The shain stuff

  • Jun 24, 2020, 09:50 IST

Urbanisation

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…

Prithviraj Dhariwal

Prithviraj Dhariwal @ConsultantsCounsellors

  • Jun 23, 2020, 15:24 IST

The story behind the lullaby: Maratha invasions in Bengal

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…

Soumyaseema Mandal

Soumyaseema Mandal @PicknPolitics

  • Jun 07, 2020, 15:27 IST

The bygone days of Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws

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…

Soumyaseema Mandal

Soumyaseema Mandal @PicknPolitics

  • May 27, 2020, 15:50 IST

Rage Against the Machine (of System Sexism in Music)

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…

Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy @Politically Incorrect

  • May 24, 2020, 23:14 IST

Psychological impacts of Covid-19

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…

Jc Shreya Maurya

Jc Shreya Maurya @TalkThrillsArtist

  • May 22, 2020, 21:22 IST

My unique experience in the lockdown

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…

ayush singh

ayush singh @Reamersandfilesthepitstop

  • May 14, 2020, 12:14 IST

The Travelers – What happens next

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…

Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh @Justhuman

  • May 09, 2020, 15:07 IST

Major cities suffer without labourers

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…

Shantharama Murthy

Shantharama Murthy @My General thoughts

  • May 09, 2020, 14:24 IST

My questions on EQUALITY

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…

Tina Chakraborty

Tina Chakraborty @Tina Writes

  • Apr 20, 2020, 19:02 IST