I wonder what Frank S. Smythe would have thought about the deterioration of mountains today when he completed his climb of Mount Kamet in 1931.
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Madhulika Khaitan — Excerpt: Indisputably, there is the will of God. But then, there is also the will of a woman.
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Chitra Gopalakrishnan — Excerpt: The men tell me they are heading to a pokkar. “We want our pond back and we will take it, one way or another,” they say.
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Apoorva Shekher — Excerpt: Alok rushed outside and found a few rowdy-looking youngsters throwing stones at a building in the precincts of the Sharda Temple.
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Panchami — Excerpt: What began as reading ‘about’ the region transcended into reading ‘from’ the region. Shafak’s work was a beacon, my entry into literature from West Asia.
