Bhavya Dore

Oct 24, 2024 | openthemagazine.com | Bhavya Dore

Books England’s first forays into the country and the lasting impacts Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to the World John Murray 304 pages | ₹ 799 Hawkins Presenting King James’s Letter To The Great Mogul (Photo: Getty Images) In 1609, “a brash and daring” young merchant carrying a letter from England’s King James I arrived in the court of Jahangir.

Aug 31, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke |P. Baruah |Sharjeel Usmani

Like most Van Gujjars in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, 70-year-old Noor Mohammad has lived in forests all his life. He lived with his wife and daughter in a dera—a small cluster of huts made of mud and tree branches, usually occupied by a single Van Gujjar family—in the Chapdi range of Shivalik Forest, around 60 kilometres from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district. Less than 20 feet away, his son lived with his wife and their two sons.

Aug 7, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Colm Toibin |Bhavya Dore |R. Ramachandran |Vivek Narayanan

Colm Tóibín never liked sequels and never thought he should write one, he told NPR recently. So, the ending of his 2009 blockbuster novel, Brooklyn, should have been final. Except, now Tóibín has returned with an update to the story in the form of Long Island. At the end of Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey, the young Irish immigrant from Enniscorthy, torn between new country and old, American husband and Irish suitor, returned to New York.

Jul 7, 2024 | readersdigest.in | Bhavya Dore

Gabar Singh Negi normally spent Diwali with his wife and children at home in the mountainous north. Last November, on Diwali day, the 52-year-old Uttarakhand local looked forward to finishing work early and heading home to celebrate—light lamps through the house, perform a puja and feast with his family. First, however, he would have to finish his 12-hour night shift as foreman at the worksite of the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi.

May 28, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | P. Baruah |Poorvi Gupta |Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke

In the summer of May 2022, relegated to his oblong-shaped high-security anda cell, GN Saibaba was frequently thirsty. The Delhi University professor, lodged in Nagpur Central Jail at the time, has post-polio paralysis in both legs. He had also lost the use of his left hand after a nerve injury he said he sustained during his arrest.