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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Fusion cuisine is defined as a combination of elements of various culinary traditions while not fitting specifically into any. But I have always been wary of the term. Past experiences have shown me unfortunate pairings of elements from varying cuisines with little thought to how the complete dish works. One of my pet peeves is a […]
June is the month for mangoes and mango eating. My grandfather would say that we should eat nothing but mangoes during this season, accompanied by glasses of milk. Eww…I can’t handle the milk part. But mangoes! Green mango rice with ground mustard and green chillies, mango panna with cardamom and jaggery, mango lassi, mango kulfi, mango […]
When I first came to Bangalore in 1994, I was struck by how different South-Indian food was from its token representation in a small North-Indian town where I grew up thinking uttapam was infact another word for a besan ka chilla. The idlis I ate in Bangalore’s Darshinis were naturally melt-in-the-mouth and not soggy. The sambhar here was unapologetically fiery on the tongue and the masala dosa was not thick and […]
Unboxed Writers present Master Chef Sanjay Tyagi’s column where he will share unique recipes enriched by his decades of work in various parts of the world. It will be called From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen. Passion and discipline inspire Chef Tyagi to create dishes that are more art than food. After having nurtured Umerkot as one of Bangalore’s premier Indian restaurants, he is now busy nourishing Tattv. Tattv, which in […]
Chef Sanjay Tyagi never uses the garam masala in his cooking. “Haven’t used it for over 20 years,” he says. The reason? In his food, as in his life, he wants different flavours to speak for themselves. To stand out. To be heard. The affable, soft spoken Tyagi is as enthusiastic about his food as he was when he […]
Unboxed Writers present Master Chef Sanjay Tyagi’s column where he will share unique recipes enriched by his decades of work in various parts of the world. It will be called From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen. Passion and discipline inspire Chef Tyagi to create dishes that are more art than food. After having nurtured Umerkot as one of Bangalore’s premier Indian restaurants, he is now busy nourishing Tattv. Tattv, which […]
Delhi summers are to die of. Not for. Come school vacations and Delhiites head for the hills in droves—the middle class to domestic hill stations and the affluent to ‘foreign’ ones. Those constrained by work schedules take refuge in air conditioned offices and homes. Shopaholics abandon the open air markets and head for air conditioned […]
The setting: A Sri Lankan Presidential bungalow turned into an intimate, sexy restaurant. Think dark panelling, ornate pillars, flowers everywhere. The food: Fabulous nouvelle cuisine. The right mixture of local and international flavours, all carefully prepared and beautifully presented. Isn’t it odd then, that the only thing I can remember about that meal is the dessert? This […]
“Every time I come to Delhi, I find it completely changed”, wails a childhood friend who has lived away from the city of her birth ever since she got married. Indeed, she has reason to lament. Her annual, long visits to the capital are enlivened by manic shopping excursions to all the main markets of […]
It’s the Basant Navratri again—the nine day spring festival that heralds the onset of the New Year according to the traditional Hindu Vikrami calendar—when devotees observe fasts that culminate in the celebration of Durga Ashtami on the eighth lunar day and Ram Navami (the birth of Lord Rama) on the ninth day. “Now, who will […]
Kachoris … samosas … burfis … laddoos … traditional Indian delicacies that used to be the staple in every Indian home, even if they went by different names in different parts of the country. Today the exigencies of sedentary lifestyles make it inadvisable to indulge a passion for rich food on a regular basis. Festivals, […]
Today someone’s driver delivered a tiffin box to my place. My neighbour, who was away from home at the time, called up and requested me to receive it and keep it in my refrigerator for him. Coming back home, he first came to pick up his precious box before going to his own place. Turned […]