Personal Essay
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‘I was going to be fine, I thought. Until I wasn’t’: Surviving breast cancer – and life after
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‘What happened to the flowers?’: What absolute freedom looks like for publisher-poet Naveen Kishore
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‘Raavan & Eddie’: Remembering Kiran Nagarkar’s funny, incisive novel of how Bombay became Mumbai
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A writer’s memories: When Indira Gandhi’s son rescued and looked after Mridula Garg’s pet dog
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Prayers for his return: A friend from across the border waits for Indian mountaineer to be rescued
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A wicket, a catch and a ‘miracle’ match: How cricket helped me find my feet
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‘The pall of death still surrounds me’: Artist Ganesh Haloi recounts growing up during the Partition
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As the Taliban took over, my family tore up our photo album – and sent me a picture of them doing so
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Personal essay: Death is everywhere in Bollywood, but why is grief so rare?
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The way of the open palm: Writer and artist Shakti Maira’s wife Swati Chopra recounts his final year
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A novelist gets Covid-19 up in a Himalayan town. This is what her life turns into
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First person: Cycling in Calcutta gifted me freedom, adventures and a very special friendship
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What a kite’s nest near my home told me about the state of Indian democracy
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‘A life of principle, integrity and dignity’: A son’s tribute to his policeman father PG Halarnkar
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How to write an elegy in the year of dying: Poet-novelist Tishani Doshi on the death of her dog
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How Jeanette Winterson and her ‘Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal’ helped me cope with anxiety