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HE IS PRESENT IN HIS ABSENCE - By Mihir Srivastava
“True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime,” Alphonse de Lamartine A couple for more than fifty years becomes a constant in each other’s...
Jan 5, 20245 min read


UNMESSING HER HEAD: MOTHER OF A GAY DAUGHTER - By Mallika Sarabhai
I had always been very close to my children and had been through hard times bringing them up alone after my husband and I separated. I...
Nov 14, 20234 min read


Robin Gupta brings light to 'The Secret City' - By Mihir Srivastava
Recently, Robin Gupta’s third book The Secret City was launched at Delhi’s Gymkhana Club. A 75 years old, young at heart, Robin, served...
Nov 10, 20234 min read


WHAT DOES NOT KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER! - By Livleen Bhagat
What does not kill you makes you stronger. This has been particularly true in my case. I was 18 then, this was more than half a century...
Nov 7, 20235 min read


P N DUBEY WALKED AWAY WITHOUT A TRACE, SON ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MONTHS
By Mihir Srivastava Prem Narayan Dubey, 85 years, was a popular figure in his locality. Physically healthy for his age, he likes to go...
Aug 9, 20234 min read


AN ODE TO A FRIEND: HEMI AND THE MAKING OF SANSKRITI SCHOOL
By Livleen Bhagat A bare envelope was delivered to my doorstep. I opened it to realise it was from Sanskriti School. This year the school...
Aug 6, 20233 min read


MY SONS ARE MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE'S WORK
By Sanjay Asthana We were all enjoying the rainy weekend. My sons Akshay, 24 going to be 25 soon, and Anmol, 23, their friend Jay who...
Jul 10, 20235 min read


TO MY MOTHER WITH LOVE
By Amrita Talwar Shashi Bala, my mother, died of ovarian cancer at the age of seventy-eight on 3 July, 2022. Losing a parent is the...
Jul 7, 20235 min read


TONY JESUDASAN: THE CATALYST - By Mihir Srivastava
Tony Jesudasan, a key lieutenant of Anil Ambani's Reliance group and one of the finest corporate communications and corporate affairs...
Jun 30, 20235 min read


MY ADVENTURES IN IRAN
By Livleen Bhagat My husband Arun Bhagat’s job took us to places. Iran is one of them. We lived in Tehran for four years till 1984. It...
May 30, 20235 min read


GROWING UP WITH MY TWO BOYS
By Smita Dhariwal I’m a mother of two boys, now men–Rishab and Raghav–both in their early 20s. I’m proud of them, not because they have...
May 16, 20236 min read


WE LOVED RIGHT DOWN TO OUR LAST GOODBYE!
By Mihir Srivastava Thomas Ellis is a bespectacled French man with a certain charm. He was integral to Delhi life for ten long years, and...
May 15, 20236 min read
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