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The heavy wooden door to Tavern-Behind-Trincas is just off bustling Park Street. It’s the perfect semi-hidden portal to a world within a world.

Owners’ pride: Kolkata’s Trincas

How a century-old Park Street icon became the city’s unlikely LGBTQIA+ haven.
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A decorated tram cuts through Esplanade in central Kolkata on February 24, flagging off the week-long Tram Jatra to celebrate the 150th year of the tramways in Kolkata. Trams began operating in Kolkata on February 24, 1873. At present, only three tram routes are operational and the services are irregular. Till 2017, there were more than 25 routes in the city.

Can the 150-year-old Kolkata tramway keep up with the city’s frantic pace?

Kolkata’s oldest and greenest mode of mass transit might just ramble into the sunset.
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The zigzag road to Tawang.

Didi of Tawang

Arunachal’s Tawang is not quite tourist-ready in the way many of us expect. That’s part of its charm.
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Balbir Krishan in his studio.

How visible is the cultural footprint of India’s queer community?

The queer community has expanded its cultural footprint phenomenally in recent times, through art exhibitions, cinema, literature, entrepreneurship, a
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