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First Snow
12 September 2026
First Snow
12 September 2026

Short story by Karan Madhok: “Now, Lady, Miss: Please take the flowers and lean into your husband, like this, as if you are falling into him. Just a little. That’s why in English they say, ‘falling’ in love, no? Bas, gir jao unpar!”

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12 September 2026
Name Game
9 September 2026
Name Game
9 September 2026

What’s in a name? India has a long history of rebranding cities, streets, and buildings to reflect the political influence of the time. Instead of this empty tokenism, Vipin Labroo argues for the country to shift priorities towards its more pressing concerns.

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9 September 2026
Parallel Indias
6 September 2026
Parallel Indias
6 September 2026

Photo series by Vijay Kowshik V P: Parallel Indias is about proximity without connection, a study of coexistence without recognition. These are images of adjacency, lives, symbols, and bodies, all occupying the same space, often within the same frame, without ever meeting.

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6 September 2026
Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear
Photography The Chakkar 01/03/20 Photography The Chakkar 01/03/20

Northeast Delhi Riots and the charred smell of Fear

‘If fear had a smell, it’s the air in the riot-torn areas in Northeast Delhi’ - Photos from the remnants of violence, by Sanjay Basak

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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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