The food ambassador

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 […]

‘I live in a music bubble’

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 […]

Medical messiah

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 […]

Journey unto self

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Need younger people to join humanitarian aid

J&K engineer in Bangladesh, helping Rohingya refugees Jeevanjyot Singh, a 27-year-old mechanical engineer from Jammu, who works as a project manager in a construction company, comes across as just another regular young man. Behind his cheerful demeanour, though, lies a tough volunteer, always willing to work for the welfare of people affected by disasters and […]

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 […]