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Welcome to… The 2nd Landour Literature and Arts Festival [LLAF]
3 September 2026
Welcome to… The 2nd Landour Literature and Arts Festival [LLAF]
3 September 2026

Visit us for the 2nd edition of the Landour Literature and Arts Festival on September 26-27, 2026, a weekend of arts, film, literature, music, and much more, featuring speakers and artists from the hillside and beyond. By The Chakkar and Mussoorie Heritage Centre

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3 September 2026
The City and its Layers: An interview with Ruchir Joshi on GREAT EASTERN HOTEL
31 August 2026
The City and its Layers: An interview with Ruchir Joshi on GREAT EASTERN HOTEL
31 August 2026

Q&A: Ruchir Joshi speaks about Great Eastern Hotel—a novel of changing times and changing minds—about Calcutta, and his inspirations from art and memory. By Amritesh Mukherjee

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31 August 2026
Death and the Afternoon Siesta
28 August 2026
Death and the Afternoon Siesta
28 August 2026

Short story by Vishnu Bagdawala: ‘Sometimes, I would lie in bed waiting for the tears to come. Sometimes, I would wonder how it was strange that we needed to sleep in order to be awake for the rest of our lives. Until the day when, like my grandfather, we fall into an eternal sleep.’

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28 August 2026
Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya
Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 27/02/20 Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 27/02/20

Pardesi Pahadi: Kedar Tal - Finding magic in the Himalaya

‘That night I knew that there was magic left in this world’ – On a trek to Kedar Tal, Zachary Conrad faced danger, awe, and unmatched beauty.

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Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass
Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 11/02/20 Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 11/02/20

Pardesi Pahadi: The frozen, lost paths to Bali Pass

‘It was late October, too late for shepherds, and we had the mountains to ourselves.’ Read Zachary Conrad’s vivid narrative of another perilous and rewarding hike in the Himalaya.

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Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair
Art, Photography The Chakkar 05/02/20 Art, Photography The Chakkar 05/02/20

Achieving Zero: The loud silences of art from the 2020 India Art Fair

In a country where the loud, brash voices are exceedingly muting dissent, the best of the 2020 Indian Art Fair presented art’s response for peace, sustainability, and inclusiveness - by Karan Madhok

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Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess
Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 03/01/20 Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 03/01/20

Pardesi Pahadi: Nanda Devi - A glimpse of the Himalayan Goddess

“I feel a lot of things in the mountains, but gratitude is what I feel the most.” In his first ‘Pardesi Pahadi’ column, Zachary Conrad writes about an unforgettable hike for a glimpse of the majestic Nanda Devi

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The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 19/12/19 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 19/12/19

The Forgotten Town of Opulent Seths

Sanjay Basak visited a Churu, a sleepy and historic town in Rajasthan, to explore havelis, art, and remnants of history tucked in modern times.

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This Is Goa
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 08/11/19 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 08/11/19

This Is Goa

For a fund-raising project, photographer Angad Bir Singh Sodhi tells an internal story through lush external colours of Goa in the monsoon season

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