Amsterdam: Tulips And Beyond

Amsterdam: Tulips And Beyond

Amsterdam is like a mysterious package that materialises one fine morning at your doorstep, kind courtesy a secret admirer. At first, you are sceptical and a tad bit scared to open it but then curiosity gets the better of you. With a slight tug, the strings come undone and the flaps swing open. Upon peeking […]

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Taslima Nasrin: 20 Years After Lajja

Taslima Nasrin: 20 Years After Lajja

Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja, one of the most controversial bestsellers in the world has turned twenty. As bibliophiles across the world celebrated the Banned Books Week from September 21-27, Nasrin, an award-winning author of 37 books,  memoirist, physician, humanist and human rights activist looked back at the long road she has travelled with Lajja. Across continents, through death […]

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Papa:The Complete Man

Papa:The Complete Man

For most of my childhood years, I believed with a certain unwavering conviction (that only kids are known to possess), that Papa was no different than one of my bicycle riding, hop-scotch playing, squeals of joy producing little friends. There was something very light hearted and guileless about him that appealed immensely to us kiddies. […]

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Parents Know Best

Parents Know Best

It was a dark and stormy night. Expectedly, there had been a power failure in the neighbourhood. A few houses were quiet while raucous singing erupted from others as each little family dealt with the situation in their individual ways. Transistors belted songs from old Hindi films and the sounds and smells of cooking became […]

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Kochi: Familiar And Unique

Kochi: Familiar And Unique

  Kochi sits in the middle of the state of Kerala, in south-west of India. Kerala is ‘God’s Own Country’ as the marketing campaign has been shouting for years. That’s true. You go to Kerala to learn that there are more greens than just bottle green and olive-green. But no,  Kochi doesn’t succumb to the rest-of-Kerala’s diktat. And […]

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Nagpur: A Breakfast Story

Nagpur: A Breakfast Story

We landed in Nagpur on our way to Kanha. Early morning flight on a low-cost airline equals ravenous travellers. We needed some food and quickly. but in Nagpur? Yes, we could have done the down-the-road Udupi thing but didn’t really feel like a dosa. so via Google, I chanced upon an article about THE BREAKFAST STORY…  and […]

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The Truth is…

The Truth is…

The truth is… Bitter A hard pill to swallow Harsh Scary Daunting Not something you want to hear. These are usually the string of words that follow the line nobody in their right mind wants to be confronted with, “the truth is…”. Ever wonder why from the very first time we hear the statement, it […]

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URA And Pattabhi: The Unforgettables

URA And Pattabhi: The Unforgettables

Tom Cowan, the cinematographer of the 1970 classic Samskara, visited  Bangalore in 2011 to collaborate with Konarak Reddy and Kirtana Kumar (the son and daughter-in-law of Pattabhirami Reddy) on a film project called Bangalore Love Story. Cowan had shared how it was artist S G Vasudev (also the art director of Samskara) who had told him […]

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