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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
Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts
Photography The Chakkar 25/10/20 Photography The Chakkar 25/10/20

Sonepur Mela: At the Festival of Beasts

Photo Essay: 13 years ago, Siddharth Jain visited the largest animal fair in the world in Sonepur (Bihar), discovering the contrast of mythology and trade, and life and death, under the auspicious full moon.

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Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 21/10/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 21/10/20

Living Memories: A Glimpse of the history at Landour Bazaar

Photo Essay: Amidst the gorgeous Himalayan backdrop in the hamlet of Landour (Mussoorie) Gopala Krishna finds strange beauty in the old Bazaar, where history has long stood still for the local community.

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Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 14/09/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 14/09/20

Ghats, Gullies, and Ganga

Photo Essay: Lost without direction, and happy to keep moving—Varanasi’s labyrinthine old gullies and the Ganga riverside provide the glimpse of a world without time, where the ancient world collapses into the present. By Karan Madhok

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Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains
Sports/Outdoor, Photography, Literature The Chakkar 17/06/20 Sports/Outdoor, Photography, Literature The Chakkar 17/06/20

Pardesi Pahadi: Five books on the Himalaya and other Mountains

From Bandarpunch and Nanda Devi to the Annapurna and more, Zachary Conrad recommends five must-read books for a better understanding of the mountains we seek to scale—beyond us, and within us.

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What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 04/06/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 04/06/20

What the storm brought home: A photo-essay from Nagapattinam

A cyclone. A phone call. A two-dimensional time-machine. Barnali Ray Shukla shares the tug of emotions after storms of the past and the present in this poetic photo-essay.

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Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship
Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 02/06/20 Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 02/06/20

Shyama's Cattle: Ode to a Himalayan friendship

Photo Essay: Deep in the mountains, the seeds of mutual loneliness evolved into an unlikely camaraderie. Aman Panwar writes about his friend Shyama—a cattle-herder and shepherd—in the Har Ki Dun valley.

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Isolated With The Sky
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 25/04/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 25/04/20

Isolated With The Sky

Photo Gallery: Stuck in the coronavirus lockdown at his home in Chandigarh, Angad B. Sodhi looked up to find celestial company in the sky.

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Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined
Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 10/04/20 Sports/Outdoor, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 10/04/20

Pardesi Pahadi: Ascent to Bandarpunch - In search for wonders, real and imagined

‘The yeti is the mountain. He’s the mountain’s teeth and the mountain’s claws, a manifestation of the power of nature, and a reminder to act with respect.’ Zachary Conrad recalls an awe-inspiring hike to the Himalayan summit of Bandarpunch

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Student's Corner:  Pondy - The South Indian Gem
Student's Corner, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 19/03/20 Student's Corner, Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 19/03/20

Student's Corner: Pondy - The South Indian Gem

There are places in India where culture and time stand still, where every door leads to somewhere new. - A photo gallery from Puducherry by Araan Suares for Student’s Corner.

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Indian Railways: A photographic journey
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 14/03/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 14/03/20

Indian Railways: A photographic journey

Overrated, wonderful little cups of chai. Shadows of sunlit coaches in the day-time. The human restlessness at the platform. Colourful bookstalls and neon nights. The country transforming outside the barred windows. Here’s a photo gallery of life seen through the Indian Railways by Karan Madhok

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Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj
Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 09/03/20 Creativity, Photography The Chakkar 09/03/20

Barsana Bhog: The legendary Holi celebrations of Braj

In the iconic town of Barsana, a legendary celebration of Holi continues to bring vibrant colours into the 21st century. Idris Ahmed shares some of his best photos of the ‘Barsana Bhog’ in recent years.

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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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