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Sameer Rahat was performing Urdu blues at a private function when I saw him first. It’s a novel fusion, I thought, of two rich traditions set to music. He did it very well. A gypsy by temperament, he has a need to lose himself in the quest of self-discovery, freedom from contexts: where I belong, parents, situations in life. It came to me, almost, as a rude awakening: he’s so different from his father, yet that difference has something familiar—certain continuity in disruptio

​ 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

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