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IIH OF NEPAL AND HIS MANY WALKS TO FREEDOM by Mihir Srivastava
​ Iih, just over 30, has made strange choices in life that makes him an odd one in terms of normative existence. At the age of 14, he rebelled, left the comfort of home, dropped out of school, and became a vagabond in a more in a more contemporary sense—romanticized unconventional mobile lifestyle. Home, the irrevocable condition, was not there for him, so he learned​ to take care of himself, remaining a political animal, an activist with the Gandhian ambition to change the w
Nov 255 min read


​DELHI MUSIC S​CENE: ROHIT SOLOMON IS A STAR IN THE MAKING by Mihir SrivastavaÂ
There was a singer and an accompanist on the guitar.​ Rohit Solomon played guitar in the way that it felt like an orchestra, I could hear...
Sep 284 min read


GEN Z OF NEPAL: THE LEADERLESS REVOLUTION by Mihir Srivastava
The revolutionary Gen Z of Nepal overthrew the incumbent government in merely 24 hours of agitation. They were against protracted...
Sep 185 min read


THEORETICAL PHYSICIST APOORV TIWARI AND THE UNKNOWN KNOWN by Mihir Srivastava
Theoretical physicist  Apoorv Tiwari is a 36 years old Indian with boyish looks, is​ a leading researcher in the field of quantum...
Jul 304 min read


THE MIND OF AN AVERAGE FRUSTRATED CHUMP (INCEL) By Aranya Bhagat
‘Involuntary celibate’ is an oxymoron for celibate are not involuntary. Yet, it's a name of a growing community of young men who are...
Jul 215 min read


THE MISSING FATHERS By Aranya BhagatÂ
I have been fortunate to grow up with loving parents. Not everyone I have encountered has been  as lucky. A broken marriage is rarely a...
Jun 275 min read


DEEPAK JAKHAR, A PHYSIOTHERAPIST WHO HEALS LONELINESS By Mihir Srivastava
​ Deepak Jakhar, 26, is from a village in the district of Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan, and belongs to a family of able-bodied men who have...
Jun 155 min read


​​​GENDER BENDING: THE PRECISE AMBIGUITY By Parmeshwarya Adya Bhagat
I first came to know of the concept of non-binary or gender queerness, while studying in the US, from a fellow student. I was ten. I had...
May 226 min read


​ABHINAV RAI: A WORLDLY ASSOCIATION WITH THE OCCULT By Mihir SrivastavaÂ
Abhinav Rai is a young man of 32 years who surfs on the choppy waters of destiny with a certain disdain. Son of an army officer, he had a...
Apr 235 min read


MY CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION By Parmeshwarya Adya Bhagat
In my final year of schooling, I write about education. Â I have the unique distinction of being schooled in the US and in India. That...
Apr 45 min read


SUNNY KUMAR SINGH, AN IAS OFFICER, IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR By Mihir Srivastava
​ The civil services, particularly the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), is a unifying factor as far as our nationhood is concerned....
Apr 35 min read


ANUSHA RAO AND SUHAS MAHESH: ANCIENT WISDOM, MODERN LIVING by Mihir SrivastavaÂ
I had a chance encounter with Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh who were seated next to each other on the stage at a literary function in...
Feb 215 min read
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