On two separate visits to Tenali in Andhra Pradesh, a young man comes face-to-face with inconvenient truths that still define India. Pravin Vemuri tells the story.
Parameswaran Krishna fondly narrates the discussion he had with KP Balakrishnan, who served in the Indian postal department in the sixties. He delightfully shares some exciting stories about the Telegram, which has now become a thing of the past.
Riots are black marks on the history of a country – the potholes on its road to success. But the human spirit is the saving grace. Rajlakshmi Pillai pens a poem on two dimensions of Indianness in the aftermath of a riot.