From canvases to cars to mall installations, artist Sangeeta Babani has experimented with a variety of mediums in the course of her artist career. So, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioned her…
Raised in Bengaluru and Delhi, television actor and social entrepreneur Aditi Deshmukh has ended up making an unlikely location her karmabhoomi, or land of action: Latur, located in the Marathwada region of southeas…
Sighting this woman from a distance, it became evident that her aura drew me towards her. In any case I was looking to speak to an emancipated woman that morning. Part of a routine that I had set for myself. Having never been af…
Keen to highlight interesting things to do in her adopted city Goa during the offseason, Vijaya Josephine Pais founded the Facebook group Offbeat Goa in 2014. What started as a mere social-media page has grown today into 2…
We are sometimes defined by that one major milestone in our lives. For Bhagyashree, it was her unforgettable debut role in the Bollywood blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). Though she went on to star in 20 more films after t…
After eking a living as a domestic helper, snack-stall owner, tea-seller and tailor, single mother Minaj Nadaf now drives an auto-rickshaw, wins marathons and even works for charity!
A single mom of two teenage kids, a do…
Associate supervisor and fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, Dr Varkha Chulani practises rational emotive behaviour therapy system. To put it in layman’s terms, the clinical psychologist and psychother…
Around the time that Dr Renu Mahtani worked in a hospital ICU, she developed psoriasis, an incurable skin disease. Badly affected and bleeding, she realised it was stress-related, as she had long working hours and two sma…
The time-etched lines on Bhag Bahri Malhotra’s face are well earned. A little frail at 88, the matriarch of Delhi’s iconic bookstore, Bahrisons, looks nevertheless hale and hearty as she shares her life’s journey…