Postscript

From mid-August to September, the road snaking out of our locality was transformed into a site of creativity. On a stretch of pavement, figures of the goddess Durga gradually took shape in the sure hands of artisans in anticipation of the Puja season – from basic bamboo structures to bodies of...

The basic premise of conservation practice is to keep the wild and the domestic apart, or at least tightly monitored.

Isn’t it funny how meanings change and words get dressed in other clothes? Surely, no one uses “gay” today in the old Wordsworthian sense of the word? And you no longer talk of kindling an interest in a particular field or in the object of your affection. Today “Kindle” has come to mean a library...

This summer I was tired of waking up in the middle of the night to switch off my air cooler. So I built myself an intelligent extension box that lets me use a remote to switch off the cooler from the comfort of my bed. I have no training in electronics. I don’t even own a soldering iron. Yet I...