A Festival for Nanda Devi

In the Himalayan valley of the Dhauli Ganga, an ancient animist festival in honour of Nanda Devi, the mountain that is also a goddess

Kashmir: Through the Looking Glass

A visit to Kashmir brings home the dual identity of the valley

Dark Night of the Soul: The Art of Appupen

When artist and writer George Mathen, who writes under the nom de plume Appupen, burst on to the Indian graphic novel scene with his 2009 book Moonward, what immediately caught the eye were the stark black and white images of his panels. An experimental narrator, Appupen’s books don’t deal much in words. Unless strictly necessary,...

The Supersonics: Mach 2

  This article first appeared in the August-September 2014 issue of Time Out Delhi **** First, the news. Calcutta’s finest, The Supersonics, have an album out, Heads Up, and it’s the best thing you’ll hear all year. Five years since their scene-making debut, it’s been a long wait for the band once dubbed the future...

The Secret Society

The forgotten history of Indian Tantric Buddhism