by Dev Nadkarni | Jan 8, 2026 | 2026, Arts & culture, People, This & That
According to you, why is the ACK archive precious for Indian literature? When Amar Chitra Katha was launched in the 1960s, India was in the midst of rapid social change. Urbanisation was accelerating, multi-generational and joint families were giving way to nuclear... by Dev Nadkarni | Jul 11, 2025 | 2025, Pacific, People, This & That
While Mumbai argues over who’s “Marathi enough,” I had a front-row seat to my own little language drama, cruising somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Just after boarding at a Pacific Island airport, I spotted a couple walking past my aisle seat speaking in Marathi. A... by Dev Nadkarni | Feb 27, 2025 | 2025, Arts & culture, People, This & That
The news of Ken Zuckerman’s passing is deeply shocking. Though we hadn’t met in over 20 years, our nearly four-decade-long friendship endured through frequent emails and social media exchanges. I can’t recall the exact moment we met, but it was likely during one of... by Dev Nadkarni | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023, People, This & That
With his passing this week, the legacy of Bishen Singh Bedi, one of India’s legendary spinners, has left a void in the cricketing world. Bedi, along with his contemporaries Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, formed the quartet of... by Dev Nadkarni | Dec 14, 2016 | This & That
India’s first bullet train is to have a 21km long underwater stretch north of Mumbai, said a news report last week. But only if the surveyors looked west near the Palghar coastline, they could well find a tunnel running 1600km south, to the tip of the Indian... by Dev Nadkarni | May 20, 2015 | This & That
I must have been eight. Dad and I were going somewhere in a Mumbai local. A middle aged gent boarded at a station and plonked himself on the bench in front of us. He began a monologue, gesturing intermittently. Everyone glanced at him. Some chuckled, some smirked. A...
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