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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Often the hype surrounding an event/opening is enough to put one off going there. Cue the obligatory society launch party, the hoardings all over town, ‘Bangalore’s first Michelin restaurant’, and other such hyperbole. But Yauatcha really makes you sit up and take notice. It is refreshingly true to the premise that all good restaurants aspire […]
The great columnist of The Washington Post, Art Buchwald was perhaps, also a clairvoyant man. A tongue-in-cheek piece by him written nearly 30 years ago, in the wake of rising prices in the U.S.A, describes his own foray into grocery shopping with his wife. He has to pass an armed guard, show his I.D. and […]
“Vegetarian!!!” intoned our cousin D, succinctly. “No fish, no chicken, no egg, no meat.” The waiter in the restaurant in Avanos, Turkey, nodded enthusiastically and then…looked blankly at us. Of the three of us, only D was vegetarian, rigidly so in fact and we needed to be sure of what would be served. By now, […]
In the 1998 Hollywood romantic film, You’ve Got Mail, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, a classic face-off between the neighbourhood ‘mom-and-pop’ book- store versus a national chain is the back-drop to the story. The struggle of the little shop to stay afloat in trying times and its subsequent failure is probably played out in […]
A dear friend recently went to Switzerland and took a chiffon saree with her just in case a Yash Chopra moment struck her. And she is not even a Hindi film aficionado like me. Just goes to show, doesn’t it? How in a moment when memory meets reality, a snatch from a loved film comes […]
The first Chinese restaurant in Bangalore to open in a five star hotel. A restaurant that has since 1986, been associated with memories, yes, of China and of countless loyal guests who are treated by the staff as members of an extended family with personalised napkins and engraved chopsticks and even their favourite menus […]
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 […]
I come from a family of chronically bronchitis and sinus affected humans who need no rhyme and reason or even season to catch a cold. For as long as I can remember, this catching cold syndrome has ruined several experiences for me. This includes being told that I should give up the idea of learning […]
Vivanta by Taj, Whitefield, Bangalore acquires a new dimension at night. The dimension of light as the fluid glass shell of the hotel glows, tall lamps come to life and the lung spaces connecting various areas twinkle.Terracotta, the signature Indian restaurant of the hotel has the most ambient lighting of all the spaces with just […]
Yazdani Bakery, an Irani cafe in Mumbai was opened by Meherwan Zend in 1953. He was a Parsi baker. And the building was originally a Japanese bank, but then was sold off. It is run by the third generation now and has about it, a certain quaintness. Like all Irani cafes, it seems to lack […]
Achari Dahi Bhindi Prep Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 10 minutes Recipe inspired by Tarla Dalal Serves: 2 people You need: 400 gms fresh tender bhindi (not overlarge and old) 2 medium tomatoes 2 tsp finely chopped ginger 1/4 cup fresh thick curd 1/2 tsp turmeric / haldi 1 tsp chilli powder 2 tsp coriander / […]
If you know me, you know I am a huge Pizza Express fan. I love their pizzas, those airy, puffy, light, soft like a wad of cotton dough balls with a pat of herb butter to go and God help you if you ever promise to treat me to desserts from their menu because even […]