Humans are increasingly behaving more and more robotically while software and tools such as ‘ChatGPT’ are becoming, quite amazingly, more and more human

In Calcutta, much like most other parts of the country, except perhaps parts of North India, winters are fleeting

Enduring the rains seems to have become a test of the nerves more than inspiration for creativity

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There are the strangest things that bind us, almost defining us as a people, a nation. The list of the ones that make good sense is endless. We are a...

The other day, when I accepted a dinner invitation, I spent a perfectly pleasant evening at a relative’s residence, but I almost let out a sigh of...

Last week I happened to be in Landour. You know the tiny cantonment town, north of Dehradun in Mussoorie? The town where everyone from Prannoy Roy to...

I know I haven’t shared my regular dose of ‘Sense and Sensibility’ with you for precisely two months now and I do apologise for the silence. But it...

Every other week, a mysterious folder makes a self-appointed reappearance in my mobile phone gallery. It labels itself as ‘restored’ and is filled...

What is it about some lines of poetry that make them stick? And come to get often quoted, commanding a kind of guiding quality across cultures and for...

Let us do a quick exercise. Pull out your mobile phone, go to your text window and type out the letter ‘O’. That’s right, just that one letter. How...

Much before literature festivals (or lit fests as they’re called) came to command the world of the written word or become the mecca for authors,...