Neelima Mathur, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

India and the world: Child’s eye view

A nine-year-old talks about Elon Musk being the richest man in the world. India…World… This time it is a motley group of a dozen children between...

India and the world: Child’s eye view

A nine-year-old talks about Elon Musk being the richest man in the world. India…World… This time it is a motley group of a dozen children between...

India and the world: Child’s eye view

A nine-year-old talks about Elon Musk being the richest man in the world. India…World… This time it is a motley group of a dozen children between...

India and the world: Views from a small town

‘India is the guru of the world. Who asks the guru why? Ask the chelas (pupils/learners).’ India…World… I am approaching the local grocery store in a...

India and the world: Views from a small town

‘India is the guru of the world. Who asks the guru why? Ask the chelas (pupils/learners).’ India…World… I am approaching the local grocery store in a...

India and the world: Views from a small town

‘India is the guru of the world. Who asks the guru why? Ask the chelas (pupils/learners).’ India…World… I am approaching the local grocery store in a...

Two concepts of the feminine

‘We are just women. Supposed to bring wealth (Lakshmi) into the home, but with no rights to our own wealth, so to speak. Somehow,...

Two concepts of the feminine

‘We are just women. Supposed to bring wealth (Lakshmi) into the home, but with no rights to our own wealth, so to speak. Somehow,...

Two concepts of the feminine

‘We are just women. Supposed to bring wealth (Lakshmi) into the home, but with no rights to our own wealth, so to speak. Somehow,...

What the future holds

‘Life brought us here and here is where we are stuck. It doesn’t look like we are going anywhere from here. So, yes, the...

What the future holds

‘Life brought us here and here is where we are stuck. It doesn’t look like we are going anywhere from here. So, yes, the...

What the future holds

‘Life brought us here and here is where we are stuck. It doesn’t look like we are going anywhere from here. So, yes, the...

Baabu’s story

What about work, employment, today’s youth? Tauji is quick to answer. ‘Oh all they can think about is selling the land and making it...

Baabu’s story

What about work, employment, today’s youth? Tauji is quick to answer. ‘Oh all they can think about is selling the land and making it...

Baabu’s story

What about work, employment, today’s youth? Tauji is quick to answer. ‘Oh all they can think about is selling the land and making it...

Hopes and dreams

Prashant, 46 years, a driver, is good at his job. Again, the same silences before he speaks, with bent head, ‘What is hope?’ Hope and...

Hopes and dreams

Prashant, 46 years, a driver, is good at his job. Again, the same silences before he speaks, with bent head, ‘What is hope?’ Hope and...

Hopes and dreams

Prashant, 46 years, a driver, is good at his job. Again, the same silences before he speaks, with bent head, ‘What is hope?’ Hope and...

While on duty

This the second and concluding part of the article, ‘Times, they are changing’ that appeared on 21 August 2022. Parvati, domestic help of several years,...

While on duty

This the second and concluding part of the article, ‘Times, they are changing’ that appeared on 21 August 2022. Parvati, domestic help of several years,...

While on duty

This the second and concluding part of the article, ‘Times, they are changing’ that appeared on 21 August 2022. Parvati, domestic help of several years,...

Times, they are changing

‘You will not just leave me and go, will you?’ Without a moment’s hesitation, Parvati replied, ‘Well, it is kal yug (the dark age)…anything...

Times, they are changing

‘You will not just leave me and go, will you?’ Without a moment’s hesitation, Parvati replied, ‘Well, it is kal yug (the dark age)…anything...

Times, they are changing

‘You will not just leave me and go, will you?’ Without a moment’s hesitation, Parvati replied, ‘Well, it is kal yug (the dark age)…anything...

ASHA: The frontline activist

ASHAs have a long list of tasks. Post-natal care, gathering sex behaviour details, birth and death details, polio vaccinations, family planning interventions, monitoring TB...

ASHA: The frontline activist

ASHAs have a long list of tasks. Post-natal care, gathering sex behaviour details, birth and death details, polio vaccinations, family planning interventions, monitoring TB...

ASHA: The frontline activist

ASHAs have a long list of tasks. Post-natal care, gathering sex behaviour details, birth and death details, polio vaccinations, family planning interventions, monitoring TB...

The lost women groping in the dark

They are wandering like ghosts in the very world where we live vibrantly. Meera is desperate, on the road, going from pillar to post. Who...

The lost women groping in the dark

They are wandering like ghosts in the very world where we live vibrantly. Meera is desperate, on the road, going from pillar to post. Who...

The lost women groping in the dark

They are wandering like ghosts in the very world where we live vibrantly. Meera is desperate, on the road, going from pillar to post. Who...

Secrets, mysteries and horror stories across generations

In the midst of the euphoric dark night, this or that man or woman will make proclamations. Or ‘sweep away’ the curse (jhaadnaa). There is...

Secrets, mysteries and horror stories across generations

In the midst of the euphoric dark night, this or that man or woman will make proclamations. Or ‘sweep away’ the curse (jhaadnaa). There is...

Secrets, mysteries and horror stories across generations

In the midst of the euphoric dark night, this or that man or woman will make proclamations. Or ‘sweep away’ the curse (jhaadnaa). There is...

Internet in rural India: Something is brewing

V spends 2-3 hours on the mobile. His YouTube go-to is for facts and games or school questions He also likes understanding the Comprehensive...

Let things be

All these lives are sealed. At the cost of not bothering, not caring, not interfering in the Apne aap syndrome. Apne aap karte hain. One...

Let things be

All these lives are sealed. At the cost of not bothering, not caring, not interfering in the Apne aap syndrome. Apne aap karte hain. One...

Let things be

All these lives are sealed. At the cost of not bothering, not caring, not interfering in the Apne aap syndrome. Apne aap karte hain. One...

By the lakeside

Taal Kinaare is as much a place to earn an income in a tourist locale, as it is for other nefarious stuff. Taal Kinaare. On...

By the lakeside

Taal Kinaare is as much a place to earn an income in a tourist locale, as it is for other nefarious stuff. Taal Kinaare. On...

By the lakeside

Taal Kinaare is as much a place to earn an income in a tourist locale, as it is for other nefarious stuff. Taal Kinaare. On...

Set adrift: B.Com, the common strain

Girish somehow managed to complete not just B.Com but also M.Com through correspondence courses. Life vacillated between his hometown and distant places. High life...

Set adrift: B.Com, the common strain

Girish somehow managed to complete not just B.Com but also M.Com through correspondence courses. Life vacillated between his hometown and distant places. High life...

Set adrift: B.Com, the common strain

Girish somehow managed to complete not just B.Com but also M.Com through correspondence courses. Life vacillated between his hometown and distant places. High life...

Ajay’s story

He walked in one day. With a beautiful little daughter beside him. Then the story unfolded. Ajay originally belongs to a district in Uttar Pradesh...

Ajay’s story

He walked in one day. With a beautiful little daughter beside him. Then the story unfolded. Ajay originally belongs to a district in Uttar Pradesh...

Ajay’s story

He walked in one day. With a beautiful little daughter beside him. Then the story unfolded. Ajay originally belongs to a district in Uttar Pradesh...

The sorry state of rural polytechnics

Time has passed. Niharika with almond eyes, a lovely smile and quiet demeanour, from an earlier story, has moved ahead a marginal step. She...

The sorry state of rural polytechnics

Time has passed. Niharika with almond eyes, a lovely smile and quiet demeanour, from an earlier story, has moved ahead a marginal step. She...

The sorry state of rural polytechnics

Time has passed. Niharika with almond eyes, a lovely smile and quiet demeanour, from an earlier story, has moved ahead a marginal step. She...

Touched, untouched

Their shadow could not fall on anyone a caste above them. No right to draw water from the village well. Children of God, “Harijan”,...

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From Delhi to Rio: A shared agenda for G20, rise of the Global South

Megu at Leela Palace launches an enticing and delightful new Japanese menu

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