Saeed Ibrahim — Excerpt: The smell of fodder and hay wafted through the air as the train puffed into the quaint little Deolali Railway Station.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 2 – Leningrad)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: From time to time during this overnight journey we passed through areas of very bright lights shining deliberately on the train. I had been warned about this before we left for Russia.
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Drawing Back the Curtain: Russia 1991 & Eastern Europe 1992 (Part 1 – Moscow)
Michael Smith — Excerpt: Following the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, visiting former Eastern Bloc countries became possible, and increasingly attractive.
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Phantoms of the Hills: Legends of Garhwal’s Big Cats
Ayushi Kainthola — Excerpt: One of the most vivid memories of my childhood is deeply associated with the big cat–human conflict in Uttarakhand.
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Few Grains of Sesame
Shobha Ramani — Excerpt: I had never viewed sesame through the lens of grief until that year.