New Delhi, April 23 -- In the heart of Kashmir, where the air carries the scent of pine and prayers, where rivers glide like glass through valleys older than memory, a wound has torn through our peace... Read More
New Delhi, April 22 -- I grew up in a Hindu household in India, in a home where gods didn't compete--they coexisted. Ganpati smiled from the altar, Jesus hung in my grandmother's room, and the Quran s... Read More
New Delhi, April 12 -- "Kab mili thi, kahaan bichhdi thi, humein yaad nahin... zindagi roz naye rang badalti kyun hai?" (When did we meet, where did we part--I don't remember. Why does life keep chan... Read More
New Delhi, March 26 -- Chaman Lal Bhardwaj, my Nana, his life was a masterclass in curiosity, a symphony of seeking, a relentless pursuit of knowledge not for power, not for profit, but for the sheer ... Read More
New Delhi, March 15 -- There is a certain cadence to the way messages travel in this world. They begin as a whisper of thought, an echo of memory, a ripple in the ever-expanding sea of connection. The... Read More
New Delhi, March 9 -- My ruminations, my reflections, my meditations, my conversations -- conversations regurgitated after speaking with my mother, a scholar of Vedanta, Advaita Vedanta, Upanishads, t... Read More
New delhi, March 8 -- There are those who turn up for work, and then there are those who turn work into a living, breathing art form. Siddharth Venkataraman is one of those rare souls. A man slight in... Read More
New Delhi, March 6 -- I arrived in Delhi later than I had planned, the air thick with the scent of marigolds, the city pulsing with a kind of joy that only an Indian wedding can summon. The rhythm of ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- America has made its choice. With Donald Trump's second term, the nation has anointed a man who denigrates the every day, and diminishes the sacred values that elevate us--decency... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- Karma. It is spoken of as though it were an immutable ledger, a balance sheet of sins and virtues, a script written long before we learned to read the world. It is wielded like a ... Read More