A political scientist by training, Gilles Chuyen settled in Delhi 24 years ago in pursuit of his passion – dance. It soon became the ‘medium’ of his spiritual quest French national Gilles Chuyen has lived for 24 years, exactly half his life, in Delhi. He wears many hats, is a dancer, choreographer, actor, director, writer […]

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Spunky and unstoppable, Deshna Jain, India’s contestant at the Deaf International pageant in Taiwan will make her presence felt without being able to speak a word “I want to make my country proud and show the world that it has enormous amount of talented people,” exclaims Deshna Jain, a 20-year-old girl when asked for a […]

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Dr Bharat Vaswani, who has won the Magsaysay Award for taking 7,000 mentally ill off the streets and reuniting them with their families, hopes society learns that psychiatry has the ability to put sufferers back on their feet One of the recipients of this year’s prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award is Mumbai based psychiatrist Dr Bharat […]

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After nearly a decade’s struggle, the Delhi High Court ruled that Mahender and Ramwati Koli were entitled to free prosthetic arms for their son Ritik When you walk through Sadar Bazar, you see hordes of people walking through the small lanes lined with one shop after another, and the honking of autos. But amidst all […]

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Hugo Wang has devoted his life to popularising Taiwanese food in Delhi with the ‘right balance’ For the Indian palette Hugo Wang, 36, a chef who belongs to a reputed family of chefs from Taiwan, has a strange love for Delhi that defies logic. Sometimes, particularly in the case of Hugo, logic has its own […]

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Spending a few moments with Bombay Jayashri is not only enlightening but also delightful “Nightingale of the South” Bombay Jayashri with her molten voice is India’s unofficial ambassador of Carnatic vocal music, reaching out to fans of her film songs, Sanskrit shloka recitations and devotional pieces in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Hindi. She also […]

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For the last 10 years, Omkar Nath Sharma, popularly known as Medicine Baba, has been going door to door collecting unused medicines and donating them to the needy Every morning, 81-year old Omkar Nath Sharma puts on his orange kurta, takes his bags and goes out for regular strolls. But, he is not like any […]

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Britta Petersen is one of those yoga practitioners who didn’t need an international celebration to kickstart her journey into spirituality. The journalist, social worker and entrepreneur was always a seeker of nirvan Britta Petersen was a Nirvana seeker from an early age. She has tried many things in her quest for enlightenment. In the process, […]

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