Gitanjali Kolanad explores the Devadasi tradition from colonial India to recent times. The word ‘devadasi’ has a different meaning in different contexts. The Tamil version of the word is synonymous with ‘prostitute’. The literal meaning, ‘god’s servant’ allows for a more romantic reading, and in modern...
Around India in 30 Days- Week5 Schedule
August 27
Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? Here are the states and stories we are visiting in the first week of #AroundIndiaIn30Days! FRI HIMACHAL PRADESH The Missing Piece by Anita Nair A collection of love letters in a bookshop in Shimla. A doctor from Kashmir, an artist from Kochi. Both of them reach for the book....
Around India in 30 Days- Week4 Schedule
August 20
Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? Here are the states and stories we are visiting in the first week of #AroundIndiaIn30Days! FRI SIKKIM The Presence of the Dragon by Probal Dasgupta Relations between India and China have been rocky involving incidents such as accusations of stolen sheep and yaks. Over the...
Around India in 30 Days- Week3 Schedule
August 13
Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? Here are the states and stories we are visiting in the first week of #AroundIndiaIn30Days! FRI CHHATTISGARH The Amnesias of Democracy by Nandini Sundar In May 2013, when 26 members of the Congress were killed in an ambush in Chhattisgarh, Congress leaders and the media...
Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? Here are the states and stories we are visiting in the first week of #AroundIndiaIn30Days! SAT KASHMIR With Love, From Kashmir by Nurat Maqbool Nine-year-old Kukil wants to tell the world about Kashmir through her letters. SUN LAKSHADWEEP Lakshadweep in Danger by Dhruv...
Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime? Here are the states and stories we are visiting in the first week of #AroundIndiaIn30Days! SUN TAMIL NADU Cured of Prince by Nirupama Subramanian In this extract, P. Rajagopal, the founder of Saravana Bhavan catches a fleeing Jeevajothi and her husband Prince. He abducts them...
Sachin Tendulkar’s last Ranji Trophy game inspired little Shafali Verma to take up the game. Nobody would have expected her to break Tendulkar’s record which had remained unmatched for thirty years. Check out this excerpt from our story this week from Haryana! In the dusty, small town of Rohtak, Haryana, girls don’t...
Cured of Prince
August 1
Rajagopal, the founder of Saravana Bhavan catches a fleeing Jeevajothi and her husband Prince. He abducts them in an attempt to make Jeevajothi his third wife. Check out this incredible excerpt from ‘Cured of Prince’ in this week’s story from Karnataka! When Jeevajothi and Prince returned home from Marina Beach,...
A Love Imposed
August 1
Wed to Kasturba at the tender age of 13, Gandhiji recounts the day of his marriage and his internal turmoil at the time. Read this excerpt from A Love Imposed by Mahatma Gandhi, this week’s story from Gujarat! Let the reader make no mistake. I was married, not betrothed. For in Kathiawad there are two distinct rites...
Dum-cooked Desires
August 1
The Nawab of Rampur is known for his fancy dinners and winsome cooks. He is also ‘secretly’ known for his interest in young boys… Check out this excerpt from Dum-cooked Desires in this week’s story from Uttar Pradesh. I am Shaukat Ali, twenty-four-year-old, henna-haired owner of the hole-in-thewall eatery Shaukat...