Skip To Main Content
Bhavya Dore on Muck Rack

Bhavya Dore

Verified
Mumbai
As seen in: MSN India, BBC, Bloomberg CityLab, The Economic Times, The Guardian, The Times of India, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, National Geographic Traveler, Variety and
Journalist. Written for: Caravan, Quartz, Wired, Guardian, BBC, Mint, ESPN etc. Ex-HT. Managing editor, Friend of the Court podcast. bhavya.dore@gmail.com

Get in touch with Bhavya

Contact Bhavya, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Bhavya Dore’s Journalist Portfolio

Alipur can hear you, loud and clear

Alipur can hear you, loud and clear

View article →

Articles

From traders to interpreters

|
By Kushalrani Gulab, Prathyush Parasuraman, Bhavya Dore Verified
| Frontline India Verified
One of the overlooked histories of modern migration is that of Goans to Zanzibar, a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. Although it is not clear when the migration started, by the 1860s, around eight Goans were reported as living in Zanzibar. They are most likely to have been tavern-keepers. Within two decades, some of them had become prosperous merchant princes. Meanwhile, other Goans had made their way to the island.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Return of the repressed

|
By Prathyush Parasuraman, Bhavya Dore Verified, Brinda Vasudevan
| Frontline India Verified
Very rarely have films argued their own redundancy the way Imtiaz Ali’s Partition-era drama Main Vaapas Aaunga(MVA, hereon)has. In a poignant scene, when needled to give an account of what happened during Partition seven decades after the event, a man wrinkled with age says that even if he speaks about it no one will understand. That it was a different time. That there was a poison in the air. So why speak now?
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Son of Nobody: Yann Martel’s uneven Homeric experiment

|
By Yann Martel, Bhavya Dore Verified, Brinda Vasudevan
| Frontline India Verified
Diomedes casts his spear against Ares. From Stories From Homer (1878)by Alfred J. Church, with illustrations by John Flaxman. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock The breakdown of a marriage and the violence of the Trojan War may have little in common. But in Yann Martel’s new novel, they are yoked together in unexpected, and eventually, uneven ways.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 501 licensed articles (549 Total)