The taxi took a sharp turn as he peeped down from the window, like a child refrained to do so by his mother. The hills were green with a shade of uneven grey at the peaks. A signboard welcomed him to the town of Lanslide, ‘where the earth’s axis actually…

As I spread yesterday’s newspaper over my bed(just a mattress), to prevent the crumbles of rice from my ‘single biriyani’ which could possibly fill the stomaches of three bachelors on a ‘bhook hadtal’. My glance fell on the headlines. I had read it last morning, between my thoughts of going…

Kartik Bhardwaj Apart from winning elections in Uttrakhand and making the governments in Goa and Manipur with the support of independents and local parties, the sweeping win of BJP in Uttar Pradesh has sealed its fate in the 2019 elections. It is noteworthy to see that BJP has won from…

Kartik Bhardwaj and Shilajit Mitra The new mental health bill is decriminalizing suicide, which happens to be India’s ninth most common killer, beating even malaria. With every 20th Indian suffering from depression — the primary cause of suicide — it’s time to demystify the closeted illness. Speaking about the theme…

In a room that makes up for a kitchen, an occasional toilet and a bedroom, Muhammad Yusuf sits with three other ‘Muhammads’, Muhammad Shoufiq,Dil Muhammad and Muhammad Reafiq, his neigbours . Yusuf pauses before telling his name to make sure that he is being recorded. …

It is a bad start. It has to be a bad day. The uber driver was going in circles. He looked back at me like a helpless puppy. Google maps should start showing road blocks for construction activities. …

I think in some deep corner of my heart I knew it was going to happen. My previous report was like a train trying to go in different directions, it had to derail. Although I had a different story idea in mind, in a way it was essential to amend…