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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Every home is born first in the imagination, in the longing for the culmination of a dream. Only in some homes, the dream like quality never really leaves long after the walls have sprung up and every roof tile, every brick, pillar and window has found its place. The first time you see the Jade […]
“When an architect builds a glass tower in the middle of the Arabian desert, he justifies his design with a 100 different reasons-except possibly the real one, viz., that he is trying to (unconsciously) recreate for his clients, the mythic imagery of what to them is the quintessential city of the 20th century: Houston, Texas,” […]
LikeThatOnly’s signage befuddles me to start with. It is like..a jaunty scooter developed butterfly wings that turned into a Japanese fan. But then who said dreams should make sense and that is what this young, spirited restaurant in Bangalore’s Whitefield is. A dream sequence right from the whimsical tub with its watering can shower in the […]
It is Saturday night. Over roasted pumpkin soup, lawn cooled breeze and tinkling water that gleams in a long horizontal ribbon next to my feet, I feel a bit displaced. This is Bangalore, right? Just a few hours ago, I was choking over traffic fumes as I made my way to Alila, a relatively new hotel […]
Bangalore-based architect Chitra Vishwanath and husband Vishwanath Srikantaiah live in a home that is a rain bowl, a sun catcher and most importantly a living lesson in how to give back to the earth. To say that Chitra and Vishwanath have spearheaded the water-harvesting movement in the South would be an understatement and it […]
Studio ABD, founded by designer Abhijit Bansod, one of the leading creative voices in the Indian design context is built around the credo, “Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.” For Abhijit and wife and co-designer Amrita Kaushal-Bansod, products are not just consumables but animated anecdotes, living stories that connect […]
A pixie with large talking eyes and busy hands weaving butterfly dreams. That is Sreeti Mondol for you. Someone who is definitely, decidedly a gloriously luminescent butterfly, out of her cocoon that many of us spend a lifetime hibernating in. Sreeti is a fount of colour and energy, smiles and chatter and then there are the beads. […]
“There are more things between Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet’s words are just as true today as they were when Shakespeare first penned them down. For, don’t we all yearn for things beyond the ordinary – a love that defies logic, a faith that believes before it sees, […]
The Couture Council of Fashion Institute of Technology presented Italian designer Valentino Garavani with the 2011 Couture Council Award for artistry, this September at Lincoln Center. We reproduce here a piece that was written when the designer announced his retirement in September 2007. He’s named after one and his signature red has been called everything […]
It was love at first sight. A instant romance. There they were; suspended from a high ceiling, covering the atrium with a riot of colour. The incredibly alive forms and their inner light instantly took me in. I couldn’t stop glancing back to take one more eye full as I walked to the suite ahead to meet my doctor, […]
Take a small detour from the famous Spice Route of old into a relatively undiscovered part of rural Rajasthan and one of the world’s only open-air art galleries. Painted houses fade like painted ladies of old. Their stately presence, battered shutters and pigeon filled lofts disguise an ancient beauty now fading into red tinged sunsets. […]
A couple of years after I moved to Mumbai, a Bangalore friend of mine asked me if I missed living in Bangalore. I told him I did. He waited for me to add something to that response. After a while, he asked me whether I would consider moving back to Bangalore. I told him I […]