Archives: '13 Issue 08

Has the land of spirituality succumbed to the global triarchy of religion, politics and brands? Priya Mirchandani looks for some existential answers to this unholy mess

A young designer, ferociously fit, the cynosure of all eyes with her body-con clothes. A beggar girl with her children at a street signal. Encountering each other ever so often, prodded by fate. Kiran Manral pens a tale of two girls who share the same name, hail from the same state, but are living out distinctly different destinies