Mihir Srivastava
Posts by: Mihir Srivastava
Scholastic view
‘India is the only country that is not overwhelmed by one of the three monotheistic religions. Hinduism has remained the most popular faith of the land since time immemorial,’ says Jan Ross Jan Ross, 50, was the foreign affairs editor at Die Zeit — the leading German weekly long-form newspaper — for 10 years before […]
Islands to clean a lake
A conscientious citizen finds a novel and natural way of cleaning a polluted lake. It can be a prototype of an effective way of ecologically cleaning water bodies On World Environment Day, a ban on plastic is sought, as millions of tonnes of plastic is dumped in the ocean each year. The planet is fast […]
M for Monkey, S for Snake…
Denizens of the wild have found ways to survive in Delhi for decades. Resilient survival instincts made them adapt to life in the metropolis, some even thrive Wildlife in Delhi. Sounds like an oxymoron. For the species in question are not lizard, spider or rat, but jackal and fox, monkey and langur, porcupines, snake and […]
Gori Bahu
An English girl adopted a lower middle class family residing in Delhi as her own – and lived happily for a year before things went awry A 23-year-old girl who grew up in London came to Delhi in the early summers of 2015. Mary (name changed on request) was fresh out of college and sought […]
The chroniclers
This is the story of freelance foreign journalists who adopt India as their home and grow rich in experience Delhi is one of the most difficult cities to live, perhaps, that’s what make it intense — and in some measure, engaging — to some free souls drifting across the globe. Like some of the freelance […]
All aflutter
Delhi has a thriving community of bird-watchers who knows there’s a whole new world to be explored every morning. And they find the experience akin to nirvana This may seem strange, but Delhi, despite uncontained pollution and population growth, still hosts a greater variety of birds than any single city of the world, with the […]
The CCTV conundrum
A pertinent question: Is it the politics of one-upmanship or concern for the safety of people that guides the authorities that run Delhi? Delhi has the dubious distinction of being dubbed the rape capital of the world. This epithet is not without reason. Public places are not safe for women. And the authorities have failed […]
LISTLESS IN LEIPZIG
A BACKPACKER’S ACCOUNT OF AN EVENING WITH THE NON-CONFORMIST SENSITIVE YOUTH WHO HANG OUT ON PAVEMENTS ALL NIGHT IN A GHETTO-LIKE QUARTER OF THE UNIVERSITY TOWN OF LEIPZIG Leipzig is a German city with a renowned university, and a throbbing alternate culture. The latter plays out in the almost ghettoised relatively underdeveloped eastern district where […]