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Suvir Saran
The writer is a chef, author, educator and world traveller.
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Travel within our shoresSubscriber Only
December 21, 2025 05:30 IST
A trip through south India is bound to linger because its places don’t demand transformation; they allow it
Sun, Dec 21, 2025
Aftertaste | Radha, rewritten as reckoning
December 18, 2025 19:16 IST
A radical reimagining of Radha—not as myth or muse, but as a woman whose autonomous love defies morality, power, and permission, and in doing so, rewrites what the sacred can mean.
Tue, Dec 23, 2025
Woh Humsafar Tha: On endings, echoes, and the book that became my beginningSubscriber Only
December 14, 2025 10:35 IST
A song that has outlived countries, outlasted relationships, and out-reasoned reason itself.
Sun, Dec 14, 2025
Paro: Dreams of Passion — Namita Gokhale’s daring debut still burns, still bristles, still bewitches
December 12, 2025 17:52 IST
The novel that exploded into Indian literature and never stopped smouldering.
Tue, Dec 23, 2025
Vanvas in the age of noiseSubscriber Only
December 07, 2025 05:30 IST
The vanvas we crave today is not geographical — it is psychological.
Fri, Dec 05, 2025
Aftertaste | There’s a Ghost in My Room — Sanjoy Roy’s haunted human comedy
December 04, 2025 12:45 IST
Sanjoy K Roy’s 'There’s a Ghost in My Room' is a memoir of hauntings soaked in superstition, and storytelling,
Wed, Dec 17, 2025
The mountains are calling us back to ourselvesSubscriber Only
November 30, 2025 06:00 IST
‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ cannot be a banner. It must be a becoming
Fri, Nov 28, 2025
The Chabimaster: A spy thriller on the locks we carry within our soul
November 28, 2025 12:41 IST
Harinder S. Sikka, a former naval officer who left the rigidity of uniformed life for the vulnerability of storytelling, he writes with the double vision of someone who has tasted both obedience and doubt.
Thu, Dec 11, 2025
Ek Omkar: On the oneness we keep forgettingSubscriber Only
November 23, 2025 05:30 IST
As winter approaches and November folds into December, I keep hearing that simple line in my head: Ek Omkar. It is less a prayer than a promise — that beneath our battles, beneath our bruises, beneath our beliefs, we are one breath, one light, one life.
Fri, Nov 21, 2025
Putting the Toilet Seat Down: When feminism becomes an everyday actSubscriber Only
November 20, 2025 21:16 IST
Can’t I just be a good person without being a feminist? Harshveer Jain's book provides some answers
Thu, Dec 18, 2025
The Half-Life of Grace: how we can outlive our own explosionsSubscriber Only
November 16, 2025 05:30 IST
Restraint is not the absence of passion; it is passion under discipline
Sun, Nov 16, 2025
The Blue Potter: The clay, the colour, the continuumSubscriber Only
November 13, 2025 20:46 IST
The Blue Potter is Ajeet Cour’s lyrical remembrance of artists and visionaries, blending memory, art, politics, and empathy to show how living itself becomes a crafted, enduring art.
Sun, Nov 16, 2025
Babul mora naihar chhooto hi jayeSubscriber Only
November 09, 2025 05:30 IST
It is not merely about leaving; it is about the limits of being loved. About how even the most generous arms cannot always erase inherited apprehension.
Sun, Nov 09, 2025
The song that sang me: How ‘kahe ko byaahe bides’ found my soulSubscriber Only
November 02, 2025 09:09 IST
Kahe ko byaahe bides from Umrao Jaan is a song of love and longing that echoes the pain of exile
Sun, Nov 02, 2025
Unseen: The untold story of Zomato — when hunger found its mapSubscriber Only
October 30, 2025 16:34 IST
'Unseen: The Untold Story of Zomato' is Megha Vishwanath’s deep dive into how Deepinder Goyal built an Indian startup that turned food delivery into a mirror of the nation’s appetite and ambition.
Sat, Nov 08, 2025
Avartana and the future of Indian tasteSubscriber Only
October 26, 2025 05:30 IST
ITC Hotels has done what few global groups dare — turned commerce into culture, business into beauty. Avartana’s interiors are not design; they are devotion.
Fri, Oct 24, 2025
Aftertaste | I, Witness: The mirror, the memory, the manSubscriber Only
October 23, 2025 17:42 IST
Shahid Siddiqui’s memoir, I, Witness — India from Nehru to Narendra Modi — is both a confession and a chronicle, a rare act of remembering in an age of forgetting
Sat, Oct 25, 2025
The shared table that is DiwaliSubscriber Only
October 19, 2025 06:00 IST
In our kitchen, occasions overlapped, flavours mingled and every dish told a story of coexistence.
Mon, Oct 20, 2025
When the kitchen became Kurukshetra: Cooking, consciousness, and the everyday GitaSubscriber Only
October 16, 2025 16:02 IST
In pots that simmer and spoons that surrender, a chef finds Krishna’s counsel, discovering that the Bhagavad Gita for Everyday Living by Swami Mukundananda
Thu, Oct 23, 2025
Silk, Soul, and the Seam of Time: Tarun Tahiliani’s Tasva for the Modern Maharaja
October 12, 2025 08:24 IST
On walking the ramp with Tarun Tahiliani himself at Lakmé Fashion Week in Delhi
Sun, Oct 12, 2025
Slice of life – Diwali draftSubscriber Only
October 11, 2025 18:19 IST
This is the puzzle Diwali places before us: the platter overflows, but the pulse feels hollow.
Sun, Oct 12, 2025
What Made in India can look likeSubscriber Only
October 05, 2025 07:50 IST
Kansa, copper and tin bound together, humming with history, is the secret of Sokka
Sun, Oct 05, 2025
Why no one sings this song anymoreSubscriber Only
September 21, 2025 05:02 IST
Poet Muztar Khairabadi may not be a household name but in an age of noise and neglect, his works remind us that presence matters more than praise
Sat, Sep 20, 2025
Between two cities, a ghazalSubscriber Only
September 15, 2025 11:00 IST
When I stand in front of the mirror after these travels—between New York and India, between past and present—I too ask: is there anything new here? Have I changed, or only the backdrop against which I measure myself?
Mon, Sep 15, 2025
From Bombay to Pune: A journey through Ganesh worship and meaningSubscriber Only
August 31, 2025 02:00 IST
When Bal Gangadhar Tilak transformed Ganesh Chaturthi into a public festival, it was not to divide but to unite — to give people a shared purpose, to teach a city to breathe in chorus.
Sun, Aug 31, 2025Journalism of Courage
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