Features - Comfortably Numb

Feature: AIDS and the Army

‘We are fighting to contain AIDS in the Army’ “The ideal I’m working towards is a zero-AIDS situation. As of now, I know that sounds like moonshine. However, to achieve something, you have to aim for the moon.” Lt General D Raghunath, Director General Armed Forces Medical Services, is not much given to mouthing moonshine….

Feature: Prasad Bidapa, profiled

The Style Maker Speaks Mention fashion and the mind immediately conjures up the name of Prasad Bidapa. An informal chat with the man who lives, dreams, eats and thinks fashion. It’s…

Feature: Siachen`s meter keeps on ticking

Siachen’s meter keeps on ticking It’s another cold grey day. The weather has packed up for over 20 days now, and it doesn’t seem as if the weak sun will break through today. His fibreglass hut (FGH) is comfortingly warm and he doesn’t want to get out of his heavy-duty sleeping bag. But get…

Feature: Letter To A Father

Letter to a Father The morning post brought little Kelly a letter from her father stationed in an obscure hamlet in the Kashmir valley. As I watched her jump up and down with glee, shrieking “Dadda`s letter, Dadda’s letter,“ I remembered with a sudden pang that that was how I used to react when I…

Feature: Mani Ratnam, profiled

The friendly neighbourhood storyteller A fat golden orb shoots up from behind some riverside reeds. The first piercing notes of a mellifluous flute rises, in tandem with the sun. Then, there follows a series of images…click, click, click, each one breathtaking in visual simplicity, a collage tracing the life and times of a village belle. …

Feature: Passionate Friendships

A passion called friendship Of late, ‘passionate friendships’ have been much in the news thanks to Pandit Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, a couple who have had reams of newsprint devoted to their mutual devotion. I read it all, the unending speculation about the exact nature of their relationship, the curious probing into the intimate lives…

Feature: Tribute to Freddie Mercury

Tribute to Freddie M I can just hear it, the Voice From Above crooning softly, questioningly, “Ready, Freddie?“ And down below, on his sick bed, Mercury would…

Feature: Tribute to Delilah

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