Khorshed Deboo

Apr 26, 2024 | architecturaldigest.in | Khorshed Deboo

The traffic intersection of Churchgate Street (now Veer Nariman Road) and Mayo Road (now Bhaurao Patil Marg) in Mumbai—where the Bhikha Behram Well is rather unassumingly located—is a notoriously busy one. On weekdays, a sea of office-goers rush from Churchgate station to their workplaces in Fort, while lawyers in black robes speed-walk to one of the many legal firms, or perhaps for a hearing in the nearby courts.

Apr 4, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Jayant Kaikini |Tejaswini Niranjana |Khorshed Deboo |Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Each day, as I traverse the streets of Mumbai on foot, I cannot help but take note of the ordinary and the mundane: young boys posing for group selfies after a day of euphoric cricket at Oval Maidan; police personnel feeding stray cats outside the City Civil & Sessions Court; the homeless using discarded barricades from Metro construction sites to create makeshift kholis (shelters). These vignettes of anonymous lives create a psychogeography, conjuring up backstories.

Apr 4, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Brinda Karat |Smita Gupta |Khorshed Deboo |Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Set during the years from 1975 to 1985, the book vividly captures the period, bringing alive the remarkable journey of a young woman from a privileged but progressive background who joins the communist party in India. In her memoir, Brinda Karat, who is a Politburo member of the CPI(M), writes about her return to India to join the communist party with the firm belief that the revolution was imminent.