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Lounge Fiction Special: ‘The many lives of a leaf’ by Uddipana Goswami
Do wild thoughts count as resistance? Is charting one’s own path and travelling alone a rebellion that will be remembered?
14 min read5 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Woman and Dog by Shanta Gokhale
In an upside-down world, a human and an animal ramble on, propelled by ego, but lost to history
9 min read5 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: Heads or Tails by Zeyad Masroor Khan
Who decides the size of or need for a sacrifice?
12 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Training’ by Gogu Shyamala
Is war a debate, a dilemma or a drama? Or can it be a poem? A class contemplates its many meanings
11 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Khalil’ by Tanuj Solanki
From being central to war and peace alike, the mule has become, for the most part, an object of figurative art
10 min read4 Jan 2025A note on the issue: Imagining the stories of our time
For the first week of the year, we hand the job of storytelling to some of the country’s most interesting writers of fiction
2 min read4 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Kukri’ by Vikram Shah
Happiness, innocence, abandon, it is all too much to sustain over a life
20 min read3 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Ocean of Spines’ by Prashanth Srivatsa
Trying to conjure a sliver of the past, and remember to whom a story belonged
10 min read3 Jan 2025Lounge Fiction Special 2025: ‘Gas’ by Nikhita Thomas
Does being confined to a hospital bed give husbands better capacity for kindness toward their wives?
13 min read3 Jan 2025Fiction Special 2025: ‘No End’ by Ruth Vanita
An idyllic summer comes to a close with the dawn of realisation
6 min read3 Jan 2025Popular Topics
Budget
The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared