India, June 20 -- Dug-du-gi. Speak it aloud. The tongue rocks back and forth across the mouth before landing on the final gi. So musical, this word dugdugi. It recalls the rattle of the small hand dr... Read More
India, June 20 -- Dug-du-gi. Speak it aloud. The tongue rocks back and forth across the mouth before landing on the final gi. So musical, this word dugdugi. It recalls the rattle of the small hand dru... Read More
India, June 19 -- The street in central Delhi is lined on both sides by shops stocked with spare automobile parts. It is a landscape of metal. Battery rickshaws and motorcycles pass through. Summer's ... Read More
India, June 18 -- On lifting the lid off the giant aluminium deg, clouds of pure scented steam escapes into the city's smoggy air. Beneath the steam lie long grains of rice, each separate and glisteni... Read More
India, June 18 -- On lifting the lid off the giant aluminium deg, clouds of pure scented steam escapes into the city's smoggy air. Beneath the steam lie long grains of rice, each separate and glisteni... Read More
India, June 17 -- Poet Ana Dehlavi is a familiar face in the world of Delhi's poetry meets. This day, she graciously agrees to join our Proust Questionnaire series, in which citizens are nudged to mak... Read More
India, June 16 -- Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of Ulysses, acknowledged as the greatest modernist piece of fiction. The novel by James Joyce unfolds over a single day, 16 June, following... Read More
India, June 15 -- Hundreds of years ago, when the Lodhi kings were ruling over Delhi, a great artist in Florence painted a picture of a mother and her child. Today, that painting, Madonna and Child by... Read More
India, June 13 -- Place-names in Purani Dilli, belonging to streets, mohallas, and markets, are fiercely individualistic. They preserve memories of occupations, vanished landmarks or long-forgotten pa... Read More
India, June 13 -- Place-names in Purani Dilli, belonging to streets, mohallas, and markets, are fiercely individualistic. They preserve memories of occupations, vanished landmarks or long-forgotten pa... Read More