City Notice - Basant Panchmi, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya's Dargah

City Notice – Basant Panchmi, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya’s Dargah

The yellow season. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] Listen, be there at the dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya sharp at 4.30 pm, 13 February. The short-lived season of Sufi Basant starts from that great shrine exactly that instant….

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Soumya Vilekar, Pune

Our Self-Written Obituaries – Soumya Vilekar, Pune

The 107th death. [Text by Soumya Vilekar; photo by Anjanika Vilekar] Soumya Vilekar’s poem echoed in the distant corners of the huge conference hall. It was a special moment when the Nobel Prize laureates were being applauded and felicitated. This…