Years - Different Truths

March 5, 2017
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Why is Everyone Hounding Sasikala?

Could it be the idea of an erstwhile petty video shop owner becoming the state’s Chief Minister perhaps too much to take? Smacking of a drama that Kollywood is famous...

January 4, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food

Folklore: Lord Jagannath offered Rasagullas to Lakshmi to appease her!

The romantic legend that one hears in Odisha is that the Goddess Lakshmi was irked with her husband as he went off for a nine-day trip without her consent. She...

November 13, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Who are the Indian Political Junkies and What Angers Them so Easily?

Taking to the streets over state issues, to eat or not to eat something, to be allowed to pray or not to pray; burning public property and disrupting everyday life,...

November 6, 2016
Anumita Roy
Short Story

…And One Day-I

The protagonist, Nandini, was orphaned at the age of five, when she lost both her parents in an accident in the Western Ghats, in India. She was being brought up...

November 3, 2016
Rita Bhattacharjee
Advocacy, Health

16 Common Preventive Health Screenings for the Elderly

Though a cliché, prevention is better than cure, it’s true as well, particularly for elders. Rita details 16 common preventions for our seniors. Often, they ignore their preventive health cares, which...

September 22, 2016
Dr. Sunil Sharma
Poem

Talking with a Phantom

Intense loneliness of a mother, pining for her son, in distant land, the USA, has been captured beautifully in this evocative verse by Sunil. Hullo! Yes…Sid? Hullo? How are you?...