As I walked into a quiet, dimly lit Tibetan restaurant in North Delhi’s Majnu ka Tilla area, I found the man— after whom the place has been named— sipping Coke and enjoying tingmo (a Tibetan delicacy).
“As-Salaam o alaykum, Majnu sahib. All well?”
“Wa ‘Alaykum as-Salaam, Lord Mani sahib. Jab life ho out of control, honthon [...]
Interview
Love’s Labour Lost
Interview
An Officer and a Gentleman: Heart to heart with a Soldier
Can you turn that thing off?”—the young officer requests…rather insists.
My mind flies back in time. “Ay! Light bandh karo!”—an ominous voice starts ringing in my ears.
It was the early nineties. Trouble in the North-eastern state of Assam was blown out of proportion with [...]





