Poverty is a curse, but too much ready cash is a hazard too, particularly if it's out of the tax net, or the black money. It’s risky, not...

Sonia Kumar has just turned 80 in style. Age has ripened her like an old wine. She has a charming persona and a bold demeanour . It's...

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...

Rati Karwal, 56, is a single mother of a daughter and a son.  She was 30 years of age when she walked out of a marriage—sowed the seed of...

Sudhir with Petal (center) and Ritwika Trust Legal is a unique law firm that's run as a family by friends. Partners are (best) friends...

In my final year of schooling, I write about education.   I have the unique distinction of being schooled in the US and in India. That...

​ The civil services, particularly the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), is a unifying factor as far as our nationhood is concerned....

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...

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...

Roop Kar​nail Singh is a free soul that seeks no social sanctions and is unrepentantly herself in this demonstrative world. Authentic and...

​ ​ 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...