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Soma Basu is Deputy Editor at The Hindu MetroPlus. Untold and human interest stories propel her. Delving deep into every story keeps her on a high.

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The art engager: Continuum exhibition blends art and home life in Gurugram

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By Soma Basu Verified
| The Hindu Verified
Unlike the pristine white walls of many art galleries and the silence within, art displayed inside a home offers a different feel. An old 5,000 sq ft house tucked inside a green avenue in DLF Phase I, Gurugram, has been refurbished to lend itself as a home gallery. Earlier this week, the space was formally launched as The Art Hub with an exhibition of 100 works by 35 master and contemporary artists aesthetically displayed across rooms, hallways, staircases, terraces, and lawns.
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Interview with Anirudhya Mitra, author of The Delhi Directive , a spy thriller

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By Soma Basu Verified
| The Hindu Verified
Operating in a hidden world, intelligence agents across the globe remain an enigma to ordinary citizens. Public understanding of national security operations is shaped largely by films, yet the reality bears little resemblance to what unfolds on screen. Espionage rarely operates within the bounds of legitimacy, and its stories are seldom told. Nameless, faceless operatives — spies, assets, and handlers — work in the shadows to safeguard their nations, their contributions unknown and unacknowledged.
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Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures

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By Soma Basu Verified
| Taylor & Francis Online
ABSTRACT This article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory ethnography, it shows how the nullahs, long marked by infrastructural neglect and caste-based labor, came to hold the residual violence of Hindu–Muslim conflict.
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