Classical Pursuits

When I moved to New Delhi/Gurgaon in 2007, I quickly learned I had arrived in many cities at once: imperial Delhi and democratic Delhi, Mughal Delhi, mall Delhi and office park Delhi, Delhi of gardens and Delhi of traffic, Delhi of ghosts and Delhi of call centres. During those years, evenings and weekends spent in the Indian capital’s art gallerie...

Le Select on Boulevard Montparnasse

 This is the second of a three-part series on our favourite writing cafés in Paris.

There are a slew of historic cafés along the famous Boulevard Montparnasse, and my favourite of them, Le Select, recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. From the moment it opened in the 1920s, thi...

Sun Rays – Paula, Berlin (1889) by Alfred Stieglitz

“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than real.”
— Alfred Stieglitz

Photography in our time is going through a crisis of ontology. Ontology is a fancy philosophical term for something that is commonplace and, perhaps because it is “ordinary” as it wer...