The Amrita Pritam I Knew

Thursday 2 October '08

Known the world over as a Sahitya Kala Academy and Jnanpith Award winning poet, the Amrita Pritam that I knew was all too human...

Coming home

Monday 26 November '07

Partition revealed the worst face of human bestiality. Equally, it was also a period when ordinary people wore the wings of angels.

From train to car

Monday 22 October '07

Today name any brand of automobile and you can buy it off the dealer’s shelf, But it wasn’t always like that. Fifty years ago...

Sharing the coupe with Feroze

Thursday 23 August '07

In the late fifties, my husband, a railway officer, was posted at Lucknow in a senior position. Since I worked in Delhi, it meant my having to commute between Delhi...

Big Apple bites

Monday 23 July '07

This summer, while visiting Manhattan, I found myself staying in a neighbourhood chockful of restaurants.

The little imprint

Friday 8 June '07

I met Pappu in the early ’70s. We were building our house and the contractor would bring Pappu along every morning, perched...