The Middle Stage

A garden of Indian and world literature

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

A meeting with AK Bir, and 27 Down

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As the train pulls into Mumbai’s Victoria Terminus, dozens of people, keen to gain a headstart over their fellow travellers, begin to spill ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

On Dadasaheb Phalke's Kaliya Mardan

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From a grove of trees by a river, a child bearing a crown of peacock feathers emerges skipping and dancing, silhouetted against the sky and ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Darkness That Is Light

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This essay appeared last weekend in The Peacock, the daily newspaper of the International Film Festival of India Last December, I wandered d...
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Sunday, August 25, 2024

On Sopan Joshi's Mangifera Indica

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This year, for the first time in my life, the mango became something more than an exciting and consoling and sensuous gustatory experience f...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Understanding The Mind of the Young Indian Voter

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"Understanding The Mind of the Young Indian Voter."  This cover story written by myself appears this week as the cover story in Th...
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Saturday, January 20, 2024

Travels in the Year of the Ram Mandir

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"Jai Shri Ram!" All day long, the cry surfaces and reverberates in Ayodhya. It is the rallying call of the public along the wide ...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Kabir and his Rama

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The poet Kabir deserves to be counted alongside Rumi and Julian of Norwich as one of the greatest mystics of the last millennium. From the f...
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