memory lane
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A last walk through Grandma’s house – and back in time: The life of an East Indian family in Bandra
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Dragonfly races, cycling backwards and other childhood adventures in the Vile Parle Railway Quarters
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I was at the 1983 Cricket World Cup final. Here’s how the movie ‘83’ spoke to me
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I was at the 1983 Cricket World Cup final. Here’s how the movie ‘83’ spoke to me
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‘All routes to death’: A personal essay of friendship with Agha Shahid Ali in the early 1980s in USA
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Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and one of the heroes of the Bombay Plague
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My mother’s unlikely journey to becoming the Agony Aunt for Punjabi men and women around the world
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I studied 8,000 obituaries and found that we have always been afraid of writing ill of the dead
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How my uncle dodged death and escaped from East Pakistan to India (with a little help from a hen)
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How I restored Bapu’s bicycle with the help of local repairmen and ingenuity
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How Toru Dutt, who died at just 21 in 1877, pioneered Indian writing and poetry in English
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What I learned about (and from) Ravi Shankar as a child hanging around his music room
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Destape: How Spain’s erotic cinema of the 1970s shaped its modern society
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Why my grandfather has been writing the same phrase in Tamil over and over for the past 31 years
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Is there much more of Mumbai than meets the eye in Salman Rushdie’s new novel?
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Before Sherlock Holmes, indigenous cultures had cracked how to build memory palaces
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‘Reflections on Gandhi’: George Orwell’s assessment of Mahatma Gandhi after his assassination
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The Mont Blanc pen and other tales from Salman Rushdie’s life as a Bombay schoolboy
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Photos: When Indians took part in the most American of American traditions – the road trip
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Flashback: How Mexican artist Frida Kahlo came to be photographed in a sari
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Cinema trips and mortar demonstrations: An Afghan military mission to India in mid-20th century
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An evening with Mohammed Shahid: The man who transformed hockey into a form of art
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I couldn’t meet Enid Blyton, but meeting her daughter was just as exciting
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Natural History Museum fire: A small part of the Delhi childhood has died
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Forgotten histories: A library in a Guwahati mosque shares the fate of an old Assamese community
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After the 17-year itch: Remembering the historic 1978 India-Pakistan cricket series
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[Video] This charming short tells the story of Mumbai’s iconic kaali-peeli taxi