Sometimes, a loyal friend comes in the form of a bound copy of narrative. Other times, it comes with company. We dedicate this issue to such company: libraries. Diving into the world of books, we bring to you libraries across the world, each with their own story—a library that arrives on donkeys, one that you would stumble upon on the street, another nestling comfortably on the ground floor of an old colonial building, and one, enduring in a tower. No matter how differently intriguing all these libraries might be, we try to bring to you the essence that all of them have in common: the sense of time gone by between the pages, and stories that they all are waiting to tell.
Reading and library special
Sometimes, a loyal friend comes in the form of a bound copy of narrative. Other times, it comes with company. We dedicate this issue to such company: …
Viewfinder stories
- A photo story by Saheli Das. Coming from a town where everyone knows everyone, walking around in the city of Kolkata is always refreshing. Instead o…
Biblioburro The Donkey Library
In Nueva Granada, Columbia, where not long ago most of the fields were battlegrounds between left wing guerillas and paramilitary death squads, Mr. So…
Stories In The Open
After a long day at College, Erika hops on to her bicycle. Feeling the soft, summer breeze on her face, she swifts through people, faces and stories t…
Visitors, Visitors, let down your hair!
Amongst the dense forest of entangled wires and crowded cars, stands tall a tower. This is the Green Tower, inaugurated in 1888, and nestles in a tow…
Orijit Sen
Orijit Sen - thepeopletree@yahoo.in…
Rajiv Eipe
Rajiv Eipe - rajiveipe@gmail.com…
Amrita Barua
Amrita Barua - amrit.b@nid.edu…
Ramya Ramakrishnan
Ramya Ramakrishnan - ramya7688@gmail.com…
Arjun Gupte
Arjun Gupte - angupte@gmail.com…
Rajesh Thakare
Rajesh Thakare - rajeshgthakare@gmail.com…
Amritha R. Warrier
Amritha R. Warrier - amritha_w@nid.edu…
Delwyn Remedios
Delwyn Remedios - delwyn.remedios@gmail.com…
Priyankar Gupta
Priyankar Gupta - priyankar.gupta@gmail.com…
Sarbajit Sen
Sarbajit Sen - sarbajit.cartoonesque@gmail.com…
Shipra
Shipra - headandtales@gmail.com…
Sekhar Mukherjee
Sekhar Mukherjee - sekharm@nid.edu…
Gunjan Joshi
Gunjan Joshi - gunjan.joshi.1985@gmail.com…
Shanthala Setty
Shanthala Setty - shansetty@gmail.com…
Lavanya Naidu
Lavanya Naidu - lavanya.lmg@gmail.com…
Jemma Jose
Jemma Jose - jemmajose@gmail.com…
Shaaz Ahmed
Shaaz Ahmed - ahmedshazz@gmail.com…
Kalp Sanghvi
Kalp Sanghvi - kalpsanghvi@gmail.com…
Upamanyu Bhattacharya
Upamanyu Bhattacharya - upamanyu1994@gmail.com…
E Suresh
E Suresh - suresh@studioeeksaurus.com…
Prashant Miranda
Prashant Miranda - prash@whyso.com…
Cyrus Daruwala
Cyrus Daruwala - cyrusdaruwala@gmail.com…
Prasun Chakraborty
Prasun Chakraborty - prasunnid@gmail.com…
Shashank Acharya
Shashank Acharya - acharya.shashank@gmail.com…
Siddhartha Tripathi
Siddhartha Tripathi - siddhartha_t@nid.edu…
Vaibhav Kumaresh
Vaibhav Kumaresh - vaibhavkumaresh@hotmail.com…
Anuj Sharma on Fashion
Hear the word fashion and immediately many names pop up. But fashion is hardly a one person’s creation. It involves weavers, craftsmen, tailors, models, makeup artists, photographers and many others b…
View from the Runway
In a village about 12 hours away from Kathmandu, Nepal, lived a young boy. This was a village where there were no dreams, aspirations or looking for answers. But for him, questions were burdening his …
The Serendipity of photography
Many times, photography is a product of hard work, dedication and calculated movements. Other times, it is a moment of luck; a product when somehow the universe helps conspire a moment where the apert…
Sustainable fashion
An intrigued audience sat in the auditorium where the Pune Design Festival was in process. On the screen were excerpts of Karishma's life, which were revealing itself thread by thread, as she excitedl…
Between the two lenses
After a long day at the laboratory, she comes back home. Facts of molecular biology crowd her mind. And then, she takes off her white lab coat and her crocs, and with a click of a button enters her pa…
City musings
On a summer night, a bedroom's wall witnessed a streak of creativity. A black lead pencil started sketching a burning city; tall skyscrapers and curling flames with smoke arising. The artist to this w…
No beating around the bush
Head leaned over a microscope, she would try to enjoy knowing about the sex life of virus' and bacteria. But her mind would soon wander out of her Human Sciences laboratory to what students at the nei…
Stories in the strokes
In a crowd of strangers, a particular person catches Prakash's interest. The man is pouring hot brewed tea in small glasses. As he wipes the sweat off his brow, and calls out “Chaar Chai!”—four cups o…