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SAWM India member Bachi Karkaria writes the weekly column “Erratica” for Times of India and is the Director of the Times Litfest. Her latest book is “In Hot Blood” (Juggernaut, 2017). She lives in Mumbai.

Waternamah

Bachi Karkaria Mar 20, 2025
Slakes thirst, powers rituals – and fills an iconic well with faith

In the family way

Bachi Karkaria Nov 15, 2024
Means multiple political births – and as many miscarriages

‘And how many deaths…will it take ’til we know that too many people have died?’

Bachi Karkaria May 30, 2024
The answer (can’t keep) is ‘blowin’ in the wind’. Four times in under a fortnight we’ve been shaken by catastrophic – and totally avoidable– tragedies. 68 lives were snuffed out. Parents, siblings, breadwinners, children, even those who’d…

Hat tricks: Indian election times are turban-ulent times

Bachi Karkaria May 9, 2024
Neta rhymes with pheta, no? That’s why all those addressing election rallies resemble bridegrooms – or bearers. Both looks are valid. One will arrive to baarat-grade band-baaja; the rest will have to remain wait-ers. Having thrown their hat…

“Aapro Fali”, the Parsi Community’s Pride and the Constitutional Authority With a…

Bachi Karkaria Feb 23, 2024
Fali Nariman always had time for good causes, even for reporters looking for free advice.

Oscarried away: Real-life drama coming to a political theatre near you

Bachi Karkaria Mar 16, 2023
Forget the film that swept the 95th Academy Awards. As far as we are concerned, our two Oscars are everything, everywhere all at once. Of course we’ll make a song and dance about them, especially ‘Naatu Naatu’ which bagged Best Original.…

Dying dangerously: Three violent Gandhi deaths, A personal recollection

Bachi Karkaria Nov 17, 2022
Rajiv Gandhi’s assassins have been released by the Supreme Court to the protest of the Congress despite being forgiven by Sonia, Priyanka and Rahul. Let political pundits hammer out if this too marks a separation of party from dynasty. But…

Kabuliwalli: For a journo, how much ‘beyond’ is ‘beyond the call of duty’?

Bachi Karkaria Aug 19, 2021
The desperate scenes in Afghanistan have dredged up memories of the two Kabuliwallas of my childhood.

Coronalympics: ‘The Delta variant is outcompeting all other previous versions’

Bachi Karkaria Jul 29, 2021
Delta held our attention and headlines these past months and it wasn’t going to let the Olympics steal its meddle. So, just three days into the great Games, came a Reuters report proving that this variant is easily Citius, Altius, Fortius…

Rice and fall: India and Pakistan battle over the EU’s GI tag on basmati

Bachi Karkaria Jul 1, 2021
They had united in 1990 when the US-based Rice Tec tried to appropriate ‘Texmati’
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