About us
About TimeScribe
A bilingual editorial magazine that reads India alongside the world. Reported essays, archival re-readings, photo-led explainers, and occasional satire — in English and in Hindi, both hand-edited.
Why we exist
A note on what we are doing
The national conversation about India’s culture, its history, and the events shaping its present is too often shouted, never written; or written for one audience, never both. TimeScribe splits the difference: serious editing, generous footnotes, the same care for the Hindi paragraph as for the English one. We write for the reader who already trusts a paragraph more than a headline.
What we publish
In every issue, more or less
01Long-form essays on a piece of Indian culture or history, told with the patience of a magazine and the precision of a citation.
02Reported pieces that connect a current world event to an Indian intellectual frame older than the event itself.
03Archival re-readings — a manuscript, a museum object, a forgotten pamphlet — made readable for a contemporary audience.
04Occasional photo essays. Occasional satire. Once in a while, a translation we made ourselves.
Principles
How we work
01Original sources first. Opinions, when offered, come last and stay short.
02Both languages, equally written. The Hindi version is not a translation of the English; both are read three times.
03Every photograph carries a credit. Every claim carries a citation.
04No advertising. No tracking pixels. No paywalls. The reading experience is identical for everyone.
05Reader donations are how we stay independent. They are also how we resist the temptation to optimise for clicks.
06When we get something wrong, we say so, on the same page, with the date.
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