Sunday Sentiments

• ODE TO NOVEMBER AND MEMORIES OF AUTUMN

  Published On November 2, 2025

  We don’t really have an autumn in Delhi. Our summer merges into winter with only a brief transition heralded by the passage of Diwali. This means Keats’s Ode to Aut...
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• MR MARCO AND MS DEB, SOLVING CRIMES IN KOLKATA

  Published On October 26, 2025

  We don’t normally think of foreign secretaries as authors of detective fiction. But the day may not be far when Krishnan Srinivasan will be better known as the creato...
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• THE UGLY INDIAN AND OTHER STORIES OF RACISM

  Published On October 19, 2025

  I was asked an interesting question last week: are Indians racist? It was prompted by a report in the Times of India which reads: “A 27-year-old flight attendant from...
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• MF HUSAIN: MAN AND MYTH, ART AND ARTIST

  Published On October 12, 2025

  M. F. Husain is undoubtedly India’s best known and perhaps most highly regarded modern artist.  As this newspaper put it last week, he is “arguably the most invent...
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