Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Bone Music Story and art by Anupam Arunachalam Cultural repression in the USSR Because much of our view of the Communist USSR comes from western sources, largely American, there’s a lot of US propaganda that obscures the real picture of Cold War Soviet Russia. But in […]
Here I Like the Sounds
Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Here I Like The Sounds Poem by Salil Chaturvedi | Art by Haasini Casukhela Poet Salil Chaturvedi says about this poem of his: “The idea is to introduce the sound-gathering paraphernalia of the ear and how the outside world of sounds is interpreted through the ear, and […]
Jaane Wale Sipahi
Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Jaane Wale Sipahi Story by Falah Faisal | Art by Mad Paule This story was based on an episode described in the Safdar Hashmi biography ‘Halla Bol!’ by Sudhanva Deshpande. Safdar: a man of many talents Safdar Hashmi wore several hats – he was an actor, […]
Lockdown Fugue
Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Lockdown Fugue Story by Nandita Basu | Art by Anjora Noronha The story of ‘Lockdown Fugue’ is set during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when a strict, nationwide lockdown brought a nation of 1.38 billion people to a standstill. In a bid to contain the […]
New Wave
Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 New Wave Story by Jay Kshirsagar | Art by Annada Menon This story is a fantastical imagining that involves cats, music, superstrings and the rejuvenation of our damaged earth. The harmony of spheres A single note contains infinite harmony in the form of overtones. Each note naturally […]
The Legend of Tau Moe
Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 The Legend of Tau Moe Story by Naresh Fernandes and Annie Sen Gupta | Art by Avik Kumar Maitra Music in Hawaiian culture To quote from the GoHawaii Website linked out below: “The roots of Hawaiian music go back a thousand years and you can still hear […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers Answers to the quiz questions asked along with the map information 1. Fearless Nadia 2. Chenab 3. Jawaharlal Nehru 5. ‘When Eight Bells Toll’ by Alistair Maclean 11. Kollam and Kharagpur 13. Gurkhas 14. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya 18. Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 25. The bombil fish popular on the west coast of India is known in English as Bombay Duck. While there are several different theories for how this name came about, one origin story suggests it is named for the Bombay […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 17. The Palace on Wheels is a luxury train that’s a big favourite with well-heeled foreign tourists and a small proportion of Indian passengers who want to live life like the royals of past princely states. The carriages of the […]
The Romance of the Railways
#1-8 #9-16 #17-24 #25-33 Answers 9. Occasionally running between New Delhi and Alwar in Rajasthan, but otherwise housed at the Rewari Railway Heritage Museum, the Fairy Queen is a steam locomotive built in 1855 and restored in 1997. In 1998, it was listed in the […]