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​ A haze of smoke rises from the ghats, mingling with the aroma of tea boiling in tin kettles. I’m standing by my window, witnessing a winter morning in North Kolkata. There’s something quintessential about winters here—something that belongs only to my city, therefore, to me. My family has lived here for generations. Kolkata defines me in mysterious ways. In the following sentences, I delve on some of these mysteries openly. The first sip of cha (chai—tea leaves boiled with

Nicholas Roerich at work in Naggar. Photo courtesy: Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York) 8 June 2025. I walked towards the double-storey...

​ Rupak Roy built a house in the middle of nowhere in the Nilgiri hills and started living 35 years ago when he was 35 years of age. It's...

Theoretical physicist   Apoorv Tiwari is a 36 years old Indian with boyish looks, is​ a leading researcher in the field of quantum...

There are very few artists who practice art that essentially entails transcending boundaries, the silos they exist in, and think freely,...

I have never met Ryuichi Sakamoto and will never meet him as I came to know him after his passing. A pianist and a composer, his music...

Bandeep Singh is India’s best photographer of his generation blessed with divine sight; he sees in the way very few can. He’s not doped...

​ ​ Paul Alexander Wehner, 40, ​is a kind of a person that’s difficult to describe and easy to experience. He’s one of those to whom...

​Rita Nanda is one of the youngest persons I have met because she’s a learner. ‘Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing...

‘You’re the most unlike  babu  I have   met ,’  I told   Rupinder Brar who has been working for the Indian federal government for a good...

​​​Tina Bedi is young at 80. She lives alone in an apartment in Delhi and describes this as is the most joyous (Anand Swarup Atma) phase...

Sayan Sarkar has in him all that it takes to make it big. I’m sticking my neck out to say he’s another superstar in the making, waiting...