Suvir Saran
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Colours of Conservation: The delicate science of preserving art without erasing its history (opens the original)
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On January 1, amid the mechanical merriment of forwarded fireworks and borrowed blessings, one New Year greeting made me stop. The daughter of Shivani and Mohit Jainâone of my oldest friendsâhad returned from Florence and established a conservation studio in Delhiâs New Friends Colony. Restoration by Aashika Dhoomimal, or RAD, had quietly begun its work. Some beginnings arrive with bands and banners. Others enter carrying a cotton swab. I remember Aashika as a young girl who mirrored her m
The space between us: Humanity is defined not by likeness but by difference (opens the original)
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I am finishing work on a book of Urdu poetry, 51 ghazals written across love, loss, desire and hope. So I am sharing couplets from six of those ghazals, because the times demand it. Aankhon ko khula rakh, zamana badal raha hai Jo kal sirf khabar tha, woh aaj ghar mein jal raha hai (Keep your eyes open; the world is changing. What was news yesterday may be burning in our homes today.) Mazloom jab pukarein to nazrein na jhukana, Khamosh reh ke zulm ka hissa na ban jana (When the oppressed call, do
The Art of Preservation: A designer keeps old Bombay alive in his neighbourhood (opens the original)
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BOMBAY IS A CITY that never stops introducing itself. Every visit reveals another lane, another bakery, another balcony heavy with bougainvillea, another family that has quietly carried forward traditions while skyscrapers rise around them. Yet when friends from the US asked me to show them the Bombay I loved mostâ not the obvious landmarks, but the city that had stolen my heartâI never took them first to Marine Drive or the Gateway. I took them to Khotachiwadi. Hidden behind Girgaumâs bus
The Liberation Thali (opens the original)
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AT THE STROKE OF THE MIDNIGHT hour, when the world slept, India awoke to life and freedom. Jawaharlal Nehruâs words have echoed through classrooms, courtyards, the Parliament, radio sets and memory for nearly eight decades. We know them almost by heart. Yet I often wonder if freedom truly arrived only at midnight on August 15, 1947. Or hadIndiabeenrehearsingforthat dawn forthousandsof years? My own first taste of freedom did not arrive in a civics classÂroom or history textbook. It arrived at
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