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A Different Birthday
A birthday visit to Kochi becomes a meditation on art, performance, travel, and grief.
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Writing From The Solitary: An Anthology Of Loneliness
An excerpt from the book ‘Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology of Loneliness’ edited by Dr. Semeen Ali and Priyanka Sarkar
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Moving Upstream with Veditum India Foundation
A photo essay by Veditum India Foundation based on walks conducted by fellows of Veditum’s Moving Upstream fellowship programme.
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Different Moods through Theyyam
Prashant Sankaran takes the reader on an illustrative journey of Theyyam, a famous ritual art form that originated in North Kerala.
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Shades of White
The author’s courageous attempt to create a near-perfect amalgamation of colors, heritage and cultures is met with unforeseen hurdles. Helpless, the author calls herself a white woman with a dark story.
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Timbuktu
The author and her husband travel to Bamako, and from there, to Timbuktu They learn what Timbuktu stands for in reality compared to its popular meaning.
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The Coleslaw is the Same
A group of thirty college students, studying comparative human rights across the globe, learn that human sufferings and identity are not as different as it would seem.
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Facing Zhang Fei: Hero or Villain or Man
I’m the only foreigner on a bus from Chengdu to Langzhong Ancient Town, over three hours away north-east. A middle-aged lady, Wu Yahua, is next..
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Franz at Müritz
Elana Wolff visits Graal-Müritz, tracing Kafka’s time in this old town, where he found rest and love.
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Living in a Cave
I was 12 when I first bled. I remember getting up to use the bathroom and seeing blood in my underwear. I ran to my..
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Nightlife in Venice
Venetian nightlife, I’m sorry to report, has become rather dull. Gambling, which used to take place in decadent brothels, is now confined to the Municipal..
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Saltfish, Rum & Jamericans
My mother and I stood in line for a coconut. My feet sank into the hot Caribbean sand as we waited with the other tourists…
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Country Roads & Rickshaw Drivers
The buzzing in my ears seemed to come from a long way off. Feeling distinctly alarmed I stuck my forefingers deep into my ears, closed..
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Having a Pension: The Last American Dream Becomes an Element of Myth
Whereas hope and empowerment characterize the realm of dreams, mythic landscapes can be quite different, rife with obstacles the hero cannot overcome, despite hard work..
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The Thing about Mumbai Locals
Every morning I wake up at 8 am. I get dressed, wear my expensive tie and shiny watch. Then I roll my sleeves and walk..
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What They (Don’t) See
Starting in level 1, we began getting evaluations each spring. They checked boxes to indicate our progress in four categories, and now I can’t remember..
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Accidental Landlord
Enticed by stories of people who were flipping houses and making piles of money, I bought a run-down house on Montrose Avenue in spring 2006…
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Temple of Irreverence
I am neither religious nor especially spiritual nor convinced that God exists. Jewish by background, I am secular in practice. And while I appreciate the..
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Mehnat and Mazdoori in Barcelona
My husband and I are on our way from Madras to Paris. Chennai, actually. Calling the city Madras is more like responding to our pet..
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The Sway
In Ecuador I keep seeing a trace of 17th Century handcarts known, at one time, to have carried Confucius. But now we’ve come to..
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The Commune
America has a long history of utopian experiments, a history that stretches far beyond the hippie communes of the 1960s. Some of the earliest European..
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Colored Lights
Belmont is a neighborhood for lawn ornaments. We decorate the private landscape: Canada geese by the front walk, pink flamingos in the garden bed, a..
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Being Marxist, Being Santiago
Sabah Carrim chats with Santiago, a political refugee from Chile
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The Souq
On the way to The Wall, the surviving section of the perimeter wall that had once enclosed the Second Temple, the Herodian temple, built on land purchased…