The urban jungle still retains some precious wild spaces inhabited by not frequently seen birds and animals. The author spends a day exploring them
A new mobile app is allowing women to identify safe zones in a city with the help of crowd-sourced audits
Paris is a place brimming with history, irony and a bit of discontent.
A tourist's leisurely experience of this popular Rajasthan city is enriched by a hands-on interaction with its craftspeople
The narrow lanes of Majnu ka Tilla in north Delhi hide many Tibetan marvels, from authentic food to vignettes of their lives
Dog squads are sniffing out poachers and busting their plans. Geetanjali Krishna tells us more about these canine crusaders.
What makes Daulat ki Chaat so freaking good? Geetanjali Krishna finds out!
Museo Camera, tucked away in a basement in Gurgaon, has over 500 cameras of all vintages as well as 20,000 silver prints
Two brothers are determined to preserve Delhi's struggling population of carnivorous birds
Despite the language barrier, Beijing is a city where getting lost is not necessarily a bad idea
It's that time of the year when love blooms in the urban heart and ardent swains agonise long and hard about gifts for their beloveds. Yet, in other parts of India, where men see every woman walking alone on the streets as fair game, Valentine's Day seem to have little relevance, says Geetanjali Krishna
Somnath Bharti's unlawful demand for a police raid at midnight on a house full of women, many of whom were African nationals, seemed to be based on the view that given the colour of their skin, their deeds must be black as well, notes Geetanjali Krishna.
A Piramal social venture enables people all over Rajasthan to call 104 toll free to seek medical advice.
On Republic Day in Delhi, we celebrate being citizens of the world's largest democracy in many different ways. The glitterati have long boozy lunches in the sun, the children organise flag-hoisting in their local parks, and so on.
The domestic help is often viewed as someone who sweeps, swabs, washes and cooks rarely as person with a point of view and maybe, even an interesting life.
In Indian villages, the concepts of bio-fuels and carbon footprints do not exist. Yet, people use cycles, bullock carts, rickshaws and their own two feet, none of which cost the environment anything.
Two years ago, Sardarji hired Prakashu as his shop assistant (he has a small shop selling electrical goods over which the threat of sealing has been hanging like the veritable sword of Damocles for the last two years).
My mind was boggling at the sheer ease with which something as large and temperamental as an elephant could be hidden so easily from the authorities
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