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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This is not exactly a Holi recipe but will happily star in a spicy, authentic menu on the festival day and will win many palates with its mouth-watering, flavourful goodness. The world is abundant with different types of Kadhis. There’s Punjabi Kadhi, there’s Gujarati Kadhi, Sindi Kadhi, even Rajasthani Kadhi. There are different names too, […]
Better known in Bengali as Kaanch (nasal twang there, meaning raw) Kolaar (Kaw-Laar, meaning- ‘of banana’) Daalna (I have no idea what this means in any other language so let’s play safe and call it curry, okay?). I remember mum making this a few times. Of course, we wanted more, and we never managed to […]
Today, I want to write about something comforting, familiar, something that smells like my mom’s kitchen. This one is called the Dalna. These are no onion no garlic recipes, always curries, always eaten with rice and always made on days when the Bongs decide to stay away from meat, mostly a Saturday or sometimes a […]
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 […]
I am itching to declare this as my invention but I am sure somebody has already made it, if not spoken about it. It’s like chancing upon Palak Paneer and feeling that you came up with it. Ridiculous. But this khichdi makes me very happy. It is a ‘vegetabled’ version of what I used […]
As a child, I often wondered which tree bears the sabudana fruit. Maybe it’s a crop. But we never studied it, although we ate it so voraciously. I learnt where sabudana comes from only a few years back. Sabudana is made from Tapioca. Or sago. In India, its commercially produced as pearls of different sizes. […]
There is nothing overtly special about this day. It is just another Saturday, the day of the week that goes fastest, and she is back to her domain, the kitchen, aromas sashaying their way out of the open windows, mustard and asafetida, curry leaves and green chillies chopped fine, like little green nose rings. […]
When I think about a beach, I, without hesitation, think about Goa. As a friend aptly describes it – a land of sun, sand and sin. I’d like to tweak that to – the land of sun, sand and seafood. Goa has it all. North Goa has everything to offer for the tourist in […]
It is 2:AM. And sub zero outside. When she exhales through her mouth, there is a tiny little fog. She does this on glass panes and traces odd shapes on it until they slowly disappear. There are people sitting around the room, laughing, talking, asking questions and giving answers, while she nods in agreement and […]
In Japan, traditionally, the new year is the most important religious ceremony. Most people have five days holidays, from December 30 to January 3. Though it is a cold period, most clean their houses thoroughly. Tatami mats are exposed outside in the sun and air, paper slides, or shojis, are recovered with new paper, curtains […]
Need I say more. Seriously need I say more? I love pancakes. I love pancakes because …well. Let us just stop talking and make these okay? Make them on the new year’s first Sunday as breakfast or on a day you know you will feel deep misery – like a Monday. I have them with […]
Last weekend I packed my bags and prepared myself for a journey through time. I was headed to a city which had acted as the backdrop for one of the liveliest and most exuberant phases of my life. Pune has always been my favourite city, second only to Bhopal which also brings back truckloads of […]