The personal is political: How events on two continents drove a wedge between my father and me

A son’s story.

Mauktik Kulkarni

· Apr 26, 2020 · 03:30 pm

How a 74-year-old YouTuber created instrumental versions of film songs using the Pratham tarang

Rajendra Naik has been paying tribute to classic movie tunes with the string instrument. Find out how he does it.

Rajendra Naik

· Apr 05, 2020 · 11:00 am

On my freedom fighter father’s birth centenary, what would he have made of the hate in India today?

We started with a vision of unity and harmony. How did we get there 72 years later?

David Devadas

· Dec 19, 2019 · 12:28 pm

A new Indian venture capitalist lifts the curtain on his industry

Amongst the most dramatic differences between venture capital and traditional industries is the time you spend with 20-somethings.

Sajith Pai, qz.com

· Sep 15, 2019 · 01:30 pm

First person: What my mother taught me about crows – and life

They don’t like me, I whined once. They will someday, my mother replied.

Nandini Ramnath

· Sep 08, 2019 · 08:00 am

‘They all became animals’: My grandfather remembers the trauma and violence of India’s Partition

Despite witnessing or hearing about unbelievable cruelties, my Dada has an almost diasporic longing to return to the subcontinent.

Sapan Maini-Thompson

· Aug 15, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘It’s our land that matters to them, not our lives’: A Kashmiri student’s account of a horrific week

On Monday, our future was decided for us by imprisoning our leadership and caging common people in their homes.

Tanveer Ahmad Khan

· Aug 08, 2019 · 06:30 am

First person: When Boris Johnson asked me to spice up a profile of Mayawati

...and I went on the campaign trail in London with his brother Jo.

Jawid Laiq

· Jul 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

What growing up with two abusive men taught me about the #MeToo movement in India

Witnessing my father and grandfather’s acts of violence filled me with an inchoate rage and internal chaos that have never completely left me.

Vikram Zutshi

· Jul 17, 2019 · 11:30 am

In Indian elections, wheelchair users like me can be denied our dignity – and vote

After all these years, why can’t the Election Commission provide accessibility for voting right up until the voting machine?

Ajitkumar Nambiar, qz.com

· May 02, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Eating rotten fruit and shivering in rage: How a Kerala workshop taught me to accept life as it is

At Koodiyattam exponent G Venu’s Navarasa Sadhana workshop, performers experience all navarasas and bhavas.

Parshathy J Nath

· Apr 28, 2019 · 11:30 am

‘They’re angry with me for a crime someone else has committed’: The grief of a Kashmiri in Hyderabad

How friendships have become strained after the Pulwama attack.

Rouf Fida

· Feb 23, 2019 · 08:00 am