Priyanka Borpujari

[A shorter version of this beautiful encounter was published in Open magazine, Vol 04 Issue 17 dated April 24-30, 2012. Below is a detailed, more intimate v…

(This article first appeared in The Times of India Crest edition , dated April 28, 2012) Pakistani protest band Laal uses music and satire to take Mar…

(This article first appeared in The Hindu , dated January 28, 2012)   It took 14 years to make the 200-minute-long documentary “Jai Bhim Comrade” o…

On November 12 last year, 25 people congregated in a Bandra flat to prepare and eat momo. This delicacy was the magnet that drew about 20 Tibetans living in Mu…

("I asked for water; not caste") A mosaic in the backyard of Gandhi's Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. Is this the same Gujarat? +++ [Sanjiv and …

People from 16 villages on the Gujarat-Maharashtra border have been demonstrating their resistance to the Par-Tapi-Narmada river interlinking project, another …

(A tightly-abridged version of this story first appeared in Open magazine, September 15-21, 2011. You can read the abridged version here . Below is what was or…