Sukhada Tatke

Book review of Shyamchi Aai

A feature on Patrick Geddes and what his urban planning looked like.

A feature on South Asian art, which makes up a sizable portion of collections across museums in the UK, but many items are stolen, pillaged, and pilfered. What does this mean? What happens to these items? What can be done?

A feature on an unusual friendship.

The world’s second most popular sport has billions of fans, yet hasn’t been at the Olympics for over 100 years. A new bid might finally change that.

A story on how a legendary anaesthesiologist is remembered by those who loved her.

A bacterium found on a remote Pacific island first became the obsession of a Punjabi microbiologist. It then became a wonder drug that gave hope to millions around the world. A longform feature.

A story on the history on zero.

The search for sugar that wasn’t produced by slave labor led the British to another faraway colony: India. But was Indian sugar ever free?

Interview with Irwin Allan Sealy around his latest novel, Asoka: A Sutra.

A review-essay on memory, time and longing based on Andre Aciman's book 'Homo Irrealis.'

A story on Jawaharlal Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten's relationship.

"For the last few weeks, my body is the only thing that has been in Edinburgh, a city I moved to eight months ago. It eats, sleeps, moves and breathes on autopilot. Whatever else I am made up of is 4,500 miles and an ocean away."
An essay on witnessing India's second Covid wave from afar.

A feature on what it means to be an obituary writer during a pandemic.

An essay on France's integration model and what the country's republican ideals mean to immigrants and minorities.