How the world’s highest peak was named after a man who had never seen it—and how a mass-mail marketer unearthed […]
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The men who measured Earth’s curves
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Decoding the Dutch
Narrative.ly, January 10, 2013. 3843 words. [I profile historian Charles Gehring who discovered the roots of present day New York […]
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Boy From The Bronx.
Narrative.ly, December 5, 2012. 2476 words. [I profile Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan, equal parts walking-encyclopedia and old-time jokester.]
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Into A Tennis Time Machine – Revisiting The West Side Tennis Club In Forest Hills.
(An shorter version of this article was published in the Queens’ Courier on 4th September 2012.) (On the West Side […]
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The Greatest Show?
On the Indian circus – its past, its present and where it is headed. Forbes Life magazine(Jan – Mar 2012).
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Track Two To The Olympics – On The PT Usha School Of Athletics
Open Magazine, 29 June 2011. (How PT Usha nurtures Olympic dreams at her athletics school).
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