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: 1 cup rice 1/2 cup each of toor dal, masoor dal, moong dal and chana dal 1 cup curd 1 cup cut spinach handful of methi (fenugreek) leaves 1 carrot shredded 1/2 cup green peas 1/2 cup bottlegourd shredded 2 green chillies 3 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste 1/2 tsp […]
Ingredients: 2 medium sized potatoes 1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste 1 green chili finely chopped or chili flakes 3 tsp lemon juice pinch of sugar black salt to taste few mint leaves few coriander leaves 1/2 tsp chaat masala 3 tsp oil Method: Boil the potatoes Peel them and prick them all over […]
Ingredients: 1……… cup sabudana 2 ………..green chillies 1 tsp ……….red chili powder 1/2 tsp …………cumin seeds 2 tbsp ……………roasted groundnut powder salt to taste 3 tsp …………….oil to cook in kadai 1 tsp…………… oil for microwave cooking 7 to 8………….. curry leaves 1 tsp ……….dessicated coconut (optional) 1 tsp ………….. sugar 1/2 tsp……………. turmeric powder […]
This is nice tangy dip to go along with chips or tortillas. You can use tomatillos or green tomato for this recipe, whichever is easily available. Ingredients: 6-8 …………. small green (raw) tomatoes or tomatillos 3-4 …………. green chilies 9-10 ……….. mint leaves 1/4 cup ……. chopped coriander leaves 2-3 …………. slices of ginger 1 […]
There is nothing like freshly baked bread hot out of oven. If you have a free evening, put your baking cap on and try this wonderful recipe. Ingredients: For the bread 1 cup ………… plain flour (maida) 1.5 tsp ………. dry yeast 1/2 tsp ………. sugar 1 tsp …………. dried oregano 1/2 tsp ………. salt […]
Aam Pana, the traditional summer cooler to beat the heat – but with a smokey twist! Ingredients: 1 ………….. raw mango 1 small piece …………… ginger (or 1/2 tsp grated ginger ) 1/ 4 cup ………………. sugar 2-3 drops ………. lemon juice 1 […]
Chef Ali Mkram has the kind of face that reminds you of orange orchards and happy family picnics. A face of contented joy and peace. That he is from Syria, working in Bangalore as a chef for possibly Bangalore’s only authentic Lebanese restaurant is one of the many paradoxes you will see at The Ranoosh. […]
There are three women that I have met in this little lifetime, who have made me gasp and stare at them in awe. Mom, who I call Maa. Grandmom, who I call Dida. And Mum-in-law, who I call Amma. All women worth their weight in gold. **** Why? Well, because among their countless other gifts, […]
This is positively sinful, decadent and you can’t stop eating it. It calls out to you in the middle of the night, the middle of a lazy Sunday evening, in the middle of a bath even…you find yourself scurrying out of your bath in a robe, dripping water, to stuff one piece into our mouth […]
Many, many years ago, when there was no such thing as ready-made ginger-garlic paste, saas-bahu flicks on TV, when Mumbai had one standard climate for all seasons (hot, sucky, humid), when I could not tell Malayalam from Tamil from Kannada from Telugu…my mom got a recipe from her office colleague, Rose Aunty. Rose Aunty, like […]
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has recognized the harsh reality of malnutrition in India by saying “India‘s “unacceptably high” levels of child malnutrition are a “national shame”. Our State women and child welfare minister Varsha Gaikwad in the Assembly’s winter session last year in Nagpur admitted on the floor of the house that only 68 children were dying […]
This is not a regular thepla recipe. For one, it has no besan. And you cannot ‘see’ the methi. And there are more masalas in this as against the regular theplas. And they have a bit of a bite because of a secret ingredient. AND….and these are a cross between parathas and phulkas. Why are […]