A dinner with Rukhsana Sultana, with Vinod Mehta in company, that I regretted
PICTURE TALK Rukhsana Sultana was a close associate of Sanjay Gandhi. She is said to have...
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True to his reputation, I found Vajpayee very cordial and friendly, but I wasn’t happy with the pictures I got
PICTURE TALK Atal Behari Vajpayee was a poet, politician, statesman and three times Prime Minister of...
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When Syria took in tens of thousands of European refugees during the Second World War
By Jakob Zerbes/Kontrast When the Nazis occupied large parts of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, countless...
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When Khushwant Singh told me, ‘Go grab your seat you uninvited guest!’
PICTURE TALK Khushwant in a pensive mood as this writer shot this picture. I can’t remember...
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Phoolan hardly looked like the leader of a dreaded dacoit gang, nor like the ‘dasyu sundari’ they depicted her as
PICTURE TALK A gang of four, three reporters and me, travelled all night in a taxi...
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When Smita Patil was shocked to see me on the dot for photo shoot
PICTURE TALK Reaching at least two hours late after the appointed time for any function or...
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I never had to say a thing, Protima already had all those poses in her mind
PICTURE TALK For many, she was kaali (dark and ugly), but for me, she was a...
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Dancing away the pandemic blues: An out-of-the-box way to tide over gloom
Extraordinary circumstances call for out-of-the-box solutions. In terms of scale and global reach, the Covid-19 pandemic...
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A post-Millennial’s tribute to the ‘last Mogul’ of Indian cinema
Before I begin writing this piece, I must share this information: I was born in the...
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Snow ‘n Sand
As the plane touched down Kushok Bakula Rimpochhe Airport in Leh on a November morning, the...
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