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Hitting pause

It’s 9 a.m. The crowd is just starting to spill on to the road outside Chembur station. I try to…

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When the jungle calls

“Don’t grab the crabs!” the major said, laughing. “Just gently pass the branches behind.” We looked at each other, the…

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Say cheese

It had almost become my morning ritual. I would walk up the stairs at Daragaon village retreat to see if…

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Wrapped in green

It was the only choice. He didn’t have Pulimunchi. The Mangalorean fish curry had felt like home stranded in Pondicherry during…

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On top of the world

Early in November, Harish Kapadia was conferred the Piolets D’Or Asia Lifetime Achievement Award from the Union of Asian Alpine Associations,…

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Art by the bay

You smell Sassoon Docks before you see it. The olfactory hints grow stronger past the red and white archway, as…

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Indigo diaries

They were among the first ones to go up. Flapping back and forth on the flimsy wire, my eyes kept…

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Small joys

It’s always about the simpler things in life with the boy from the hills. Of brushing off one’s shoes, encounters…

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Microcosm

The ghats are where the action is. Walk alongside and you will find kids playing cricket on each stretch. In…

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Becoming a child at Kahani Tree

“Aaaaaaaaccchhhooooooooooooooooooooooooo” Blork! Bluurf! I seem to have caught Gajapati Kulapati’s cold. Just wait till I catch hold of that elephant…

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A bibliophile’s guide to the city’s bookstores

The last time I visited a bookstore (which was just last week), I sat down to read Neil Gaiman’s The View…

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Walking back in time

It’s 1874. Mumbai’s first tram has just pulled away from Parel TT towards Colaba. As the horse-drawn carriage trudges ahead,…

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