Sanitation workers' encampment outside the building where the Greater Chennai Corporation is headquartered [Photo: People's Archive of Rural India] The Tamil Nadu DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) state ...

In 1986, my most prized possession was a little pink phone message slip written by a hotel clerk. “Miss Dowd,” it read, “Robert Redford called. He’s at the same number as last night.” I’d never met ...