Photograph Bitan Chakraborty Kiriti Sengupta is a practising dentist and a poet, and the two roles inform each other: clinical precision meets a meditative attention to everyday life. He divides his time between New Delhi and Santiniketan, the university town Rabindranath Tagore founded as a centre for learning and the arts, and this dual…

Mount Kissavos viewed from Pineios bridge in Larissa. Photograph Konstantinos Agiannis Dimitris P. Kraniotis was born in 1966 and grew up in Stomio, Larissa, Greece where Hippocrates himself spent his later years living and practicing medicine. Dimitris followed in the footsteps of Hippocrates. After studying Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, he established his medical practice…

Photograph Tina Bexson by Tina Bexson I decided to run extra early. Just rats and foxes to eye me from the sidelines, penetrating the air with their activities of the night. And like a cat burglar at his most productive I prowled the streets with omnipotence. My darkly clothed lithe frame, and wide stride,…

Photograph Renan Lima, Pexels by Richard Steinhardt Stasis is a state of stability, equilibrium, or inactivity, with meanings that vary across contexts. The word comes from the Greek stasis, meaning standing or stoppage. In medical and pathological contexts, it refers to the slowing or stoppage of bodily fluids, as in venous stasis. In biology, stasis…

Ever since I stumbled on Sonnet Mondal’s poems, I have been captivated by their stunning simplicity and words evoking a magical experience. That he achieves this consistently is breath-taking. In this occasional series, our aim is to connect you with some of these exceptional beauties I come across. These are rare, as they don’t…