‘The Living Air’: A birder’s long tryst with birds show how they help overcome human fallibilities

‘The Living Air’ is as much about birding in general as it is about birding in Hyderabad. The author evokes the city in silent and subtle ways.

Mallik Thatipalli

· May 14, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘We want to help people to discover new books’: Hyderabad gets a new independent bookshop

‘I did not want to live in a city where they were no bookstores. . .and that led to me starting Luna.’

Mallik Thatipalli

· Dec 04, 2022 · 12:30 pm

‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad

An interview with Nazia Akhtar, the author of ‘Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose.’

Mallik Thatipalli

· Nov 26, 2022 · 05:30 pm

This children’s library in Hyderabad almost closed down during the pandemic. What revived it?

How The Book Shelf founder Haripriya Bathula fought to keep her library alive through the pandemic.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Dec 24, 2020 · 08:30 am

Low costs, moderate hopes: How Hyderabad’s last independent bookstore is trying to survive Covid-19

Owner Lakshmi Myneni says the bookshop has survived other shocks and will ride out this one.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Oct 15, 2020 · 08:30 am

The Art of Solitude: A traditional Telugu version of Ludo is helping bring a semblance of normalcy

Conversation and laughter over games of ashta chamma will be the memories of this anxious time after it has passed.

Mallik Thatipalli

· May 23, 2020 · 03:30 pm

PUBG and Warcraft can’t teach the life lessons that these traditional Indian board games did

A store in Hyderabad is trying to re-popularise South Indian games such as puli-joodam, basavanna-ata, daadi and others.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Oct 16, 2019 · 11:30 am

The story of textiles in independent India is closely linked to the life of one Hyderabadi woman

A new book documents the achievements of Suraiya Hasan Bose, who is single-handedly responsible for the revival of many forgotten weaves.

Mallik Thatipalli

· May 08, 2019 · 11:30 am

Why a tiny Hyderabad store with tattered old books has been attracting scholars for decades

Ahmed Bafanna founded Haziq and Mohi to make sure that the books bequeathed to him go to the right people. Now his relatives are continuing his legacy.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Mar 09, 2019 · 11:30 am

In Hyderabad, a Loo Café is challenging the poor perception of Indian public toilets

The city’s first luxury public washroom comes with free-to-use toilets, an ATM, an attached cafe, and a premium on cleanliness.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Oct 03, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Trash talk: An illustrator wants Indians to live waste-free and heal the world

Shubhashree Sangameshwaran’s debut book illustrates the benefits of adopting the zero-waste lifestyle.

Mallik Thatipalli

· Aug 27, 2018 · 03:30 pm