Eat, travel, write

Charmaine O’ Brien has spent 20 years understanding India through its cuisine. This Australian food historian is now working on her fourth book about Indian food Food historian Charmaine O’ Brien was an invitee at Himalayan Echoes: Kumaon Festival of Literature & Arts in Nainital. Her travels around India have been chronicled in The Penguin […]

Eco-logical living

Deepa lives a frugal life and helps people barter instead of buy. Her life is her message Very early in Deepa’s life, her parents came to the conclusion that their daughter is “strange” to put it mildly. She doesn’t exist in the normative shell, instead breaks it all the time to assert how unsustainable human […]

Window to a community: artist Rabab Zaidi’s gallery in Jamia Nagar

For anyone living in the Capital, the first thought that comes to their mind when they hear the word ‘magenta’ would be the Metro lines. Taking a cue from this and paying a tribute to the same, Centre for Art and Free Expression (CAFE) in Jamia Nagar named their gallery space Gallery Magenta.

The ‘Duende’ artist

Dhiraj Singh quit a promising career in journalism to be an artist and leads an interesting life with his wife and eight-year-old son as partners in his artistic endeavours Dhiraj Singh, 45, has made unusual choices in life. He follows his heart and perhaps that explains why he quit journalism after 15 years of working […]

It’s a matter of faith

Sunil Singh runs arguably the biggest shelter for abandoned cows — shri Mata ji Gaushala — in the world. He gives insights on what it means to take care of cows and not politicise her to cash in on votes Sunil Singh claims he runs the biggest cow shelter in the world where sacred bovines […]

Looking for a queen

The glamour industry accepts transgenders, unlike the corporate sector, says Reena Rai on the eve of a beauty pageant for the community Back in 2016, a Delhi-based homemaker’s unlikely friendship with a transgender set the ball rolling for Miss Trans Queen India. With the third edition of India’s first-ever beauty pageant for transgender women taking […]

Urbanscapes deconstructed

Andreas Van De Laar, a Dutch filmmaker, talks about his five-part documentary series on India’s development and governance BACK IN 2016, when Dutch filmmaker, Andreas van de Laar was on his first backpacking trip in India, he had no idea he would end up leaving Amsterdam and come back to shoot a documentary here. Armed […]

‘No one is being detained illegally’

In this interview with Newslaundry, J&K Director general of police Dilbag Singh denies the security forces have killed any civilian in the past 40 days or detained children illegally In An interview at his office in Srinagar on September 14, Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh denied that any civilian had been killed […]