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The Legend of Café Samovar, Mumbai’s Melting Pot of Cozy Camaraderie
Nivedita Dey recalls the glory days of Mumbai’s bygone Cafe Samovar, where for decades, friends, family, strangers, students, lawyers, homemakers, thinkers, creative souls, Bollywood icons, Marxists, liberals, and more diverse groups of humans huddled over cups of cutting chai.
Yesterday’s Rain: Six Poems by Sakkho Goon
Poetry: ‘I placed my parents on a bench / And refused to let the sunset / Dawn upon their lives.’
The Dark Webs of Jogen Chowdhury
Distortions and intimacy, revulsions and beauty: Celebrating the art of one of India’s great masters—Jogen Chowdhury—whose work continues to provide new insights to our world. By Medha Dutta Yadav
Photo series by Vijay Kowshik V P: Parallel Indias is about proximity without connection, a study of coexistence without recognition. These are images of adjacency, lives, symbols, and bodies, all occupying the same space, often within the same frame, without ever meeting.