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Romanticising mortality

My spirit is too weak; mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Full story

Immortal, yet intensely human: Time for change in Sita’s image

This search for Sita began near the botanical gardens in Peradiniya, Sri Lanka, on a day redolent with the breeze of spring. As I absorbed the lush landscape, the swaying palms, the feather-leaved bamboo, the Java willows, I thought I saw her, sitting on a rock, perhaps an apparition from a Raja Ravi Varma painting.Full story

Knotty affair: Bridging the North-South divide

Chetan Bhagat, IITian and IIM alumnus, has come up with yet another blockbuster in his 2 States: The Story of My Marriage. His two in-between books after the 2004 debut novel Five-Point Someone may Full story