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Year-end greetings!

Dear All, The year-end is approaching and we would like to wish you all a very happy transition to the coming year. Meanwhile, we would also like to inform you that we’re taking some time off from MC for some academic work and some fun! Happy New Year in advance! Team MC

In your loving memory, Dr. Khalakdina

Dr. Khalakdina epitomised India’s plurality. She was born on New Year’s day 1930 in Hyderabad, to a Hindu father and a Jewish mother (who decided jointly to convert to Catholicism as a meeting point), her godmother (and well-known educationist and Director of Lady Irwin College, Dr. Durga Deulkar) was Hindu and her husband was a […]

Dabba days: “Thank you Mummy, this one’s for you”!

Memories of my mother Are you old enough to remember receiving hot, freshly cooked meals in snugly-fitting, multi-tiered containers at school? I still recall the thrill of rolling down the ringed edges to catch the first fragrance of a fresh roti and sabzi or rajmah-chawal, maybe aloo-ka-parathas and butter…….or whatever it was that my mother […]

Cutting Chai: A blurry connection!

Early morning walk on a Sunday and I see this Dad with his little girl. She, a bit sleepy. He gently chatted with her, pointing out to the crescent moon, Venus, some graffiti, as she rubbed her sleepy eyes. He seems to be a guard at a building complex and gave me a full smile […]

Cutting chai: Diversity, sustainability and development, between dry deserts and the sea

Friends, At the outset, we would like to acknowledge the featured image that has been taken by the incredibly talented friend Sarfaraz Siddiqui during his travels to Leh featuring the Shanti Stupa. Thank you Sarfaraz for allowing us to use your images. (You can find more of his work [images and verses] on his facebook […]