Recipe: Quick Sev Raita

Recipe: Quick Sev Raita

Thick sev is called lakkadiya or ganthiya in Gujarati. It is a very popular snack and you are sure to find large containers full of ganthiya in every Gujarati household. I remember my mummy making it fresh and serving us when we come back from school. The best part about this sev is that it can be used so many ways in cooking, One […]

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Who Built My Home?

Who Built My Home?

We moved in two weeks ago… For almost one-and-a- half months prior to that, there were workers in our house.. masons, carpenters, painters, plumbers, electricians, polishers… an army of more than 15 different people at different times getting the house in place for my family of  two to move in. I visited the house often […]

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A Lakeside Jewel

A Lakeside Jewel

On the day of the launch of The Gateway Hotel Lakeside Hubli,  the majestic Unkal lake in the distance is an endless silver sprawl. Hotel rooms do not usually open to views such as this. Nor do many hotels have nine acres of greens wrapped around them.  No wonder then that an early riser is jogging around the […]

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My Captive Heart

My Captive Heart

  Captive Prince: Volume Two S.U. Pacat ** I would like to believe that the life-changing books I discover are God’s way of leading me onto the path of forgiveness. Mine towards Him. For screwing me over. But alas, there is, of course, no God. And I have to sublimate my pain over this non-life […]

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Book Bites

Book Bites

One chapter from a book sometimes tells you everything you need to know; hell, the first page can usually do that. Into my hot little hands have come three books by Indian writers, and I gave them all the same treatment, opening chapters only, just to get a feel of where they might go. Isn’t […]

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TV Soaps: Impossible Is Nothing!

TV Soaps: Impossible Is Nothing!

  I read somewhere, “Nothing should live that isn’t a labour of great, great love.” But seriously, if nothing should live that isn’t a labour of great love, how come the people and things that are, sometimes vanish into the mist of time?  It’s nothing you haven’t contemplated before. There  ought to be some place beyond, a […]

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Modern Classics: Black Friday

Modern Classics: Black Friday

We recall  Black Friday, perhaps the most perfect film in Anurag Kashyap’s oeuvre, timeless and relevant still because of what it says and the righteous rage it exhibits against the failures that allow intolerance to thrive. There is a 12-minute chase scene in the first half of Black Friday between a few police men and a […]

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Memories Of A Soul Warmer

Memories Of A Soul Warmer

  When have you stayed in a place for just two nights and have actually hoped that they serve you the same food for dinner on both nights? I did! What got me was good old pumpkin soup! In South Indian homes, we have our rasams. They are gloriously warm in colour, spicy and sour […]

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