In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Ingredients and Quantity Philadelphia cheese: 450g Castor sugar: 135g Fresh Cream: 100g Condensed milk: 250g Flour: 25g Egg white: 2nos. Egg yolk: 3nos. Digestive biscuit: 200g Melted butter: 100ml Cream the cheese and add 100g of sugar in it. Pour Fresh cream and condensed milk in it. Mix it thoroughly. Make a […]
Ingredients (Baking cup quantity measures) Grated carrots – 2 cups Light brown sugar – 3/4 – 1 cup (depending on how sweet you like the cake) (I used 3/4 cup) Unsalted butter – 125 gms (For healthier options, use canola or corn oil) All purpose flour – 1 1/2 cups Pistachios – 3/4 cup […]
Ingredients: For the short crust pastry 300 gm …… plain flour (maida) 150 gm …… salted butter, cut into small cubes and chilled 3-4 tbsp …. cold water For the filling 1 large ………….. onion, chopped 1 medium ………. tomato, chopped 1 small ………….. capsicum (green bell pepper), chopped 2 cup ……………. small broccoli florets 2 tbsp […]
Ingredients: 4 …………… medium sized tomatoes 1 …………… small bunch coriander leaves 2 tsp ………. cream 1 tsp ………. pepper powder 1 tsp ………. butter 2 tsp ………. olive oil 1/2 …………. tsp sugar salt to taste Method: Cut the tomatoes into quarters and arrange on a baking tray. Sprinkle olive oil, salt, 1/2 tsp […]
Ingredients: 1 cup hung curd salt to taste 1 green chili 1 medium sized radish a few coriander leaves Method: Peel and grate the radish. Set aside. Chop the green chili and coriander finely. In a bowl, mix the hung curd, radish, green chili and salt. Let it rest for an hour to […]
I normally experiment on days when I have time to experiment. That way, in the remote chance of a failure (ahem, ahem), I have time to whip up something familiar and comforting and hearty. I have also felt that wanting to experiment ONLY when I have time is not always a smart thing. It […]
Doesn’t that sound heart warmingly nice? Let me really not keep you from this awesomeness. Just one little thing – once you read this, you must make this. If you do, your life will start making complete sense, the Milky Way will align in magical ways to make your dreams come true. And nothing has […]