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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The problem with coming back from food heaven, like Delhi, Agra, Mussoorie…is you come back to Mumbai. Which is diverse, don’t get me wrong. But where it is NOT easy finding really good food at a reasonable price. Up north, even little tapris with 30 buck parathas serve mouth watering awesomeness. But Mumbai? […]
Prep Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 20 minutes Recipe Source: Improvised from a Sanjeev Kapoor egg recipe Serves: 2 sensible people or 1 greedy human being You need: 1 onion, chopped 1 capsicum, chopped 4-5 garlic cloves, smashed To be blanched: 1 carrot, chopped A fistful of fresh corn 1 potato, peeled and cubed […]
Sunday evenings at the Sharma household are a rather melancholic affair. Grim images of the harried hustle bustle endemic to Monday mornings and the prospect of spending yet another week confined within office cubicles buried under piles of work flash incessantly, leaving us in a state of utter despair. This time however, we decided to […]
I do not like habituated TV watching that leaves no aftertaste and so am watching it far less than usual and also because this is exam time and I would like to discipline myself before I discipline my son. We end up watching food shows though as he hopes to cook professionally some day […]
I’ve grown up eating bread for breakfast. My in-laws are usually appalled at this because down south, bread is what people eat when they are sick . But in my house, bread and eggs, toasts, French or just buttered, was always a massive hit and we don’t quite know how to work without it. So with […]
A few days ago, I chanced upon this new bakery in the Western Mumbai suburbs: Bindaas Binge. I have never heard anybody bemoaning the fact that the suburbs do not sell cheesecakes. But Mona and Vikas, the couple that started this swank new place, most unexpectedly nestled on Film City road, Goregaon East, seriously, […]
There is an undeniable joy of digging into the sourness of mom’s pickles, or opening up a cookie box that instantly hauls you away to grandma’s kitchen. Their old aprons splattered with bits of food. Their warm hands feeding you love and leaving you full, with not just a buttery goodness, but also a lifetime […]
Health defies definition. Modern medical science cannot sum up what health is; only this much is said: absence of disease is health. It is like defining a flower in relation to thorns. Why is health not defined? Because health comes from the innermost being of an individual. The Hindi word Swasthya means rooted in the innermost being. […]
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 […]
Walking into Pizza Metro Pizza, felt like crossing a threshold of time. One step inside, and I was instantly transported to Italy. To my left was a vibrant mural of a busy, colourful Naples market, reminiscent of an Italy I only saw in films. The other walls were dotted with frames of Italy’s most popular comedian […]
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 […]
Here is a simple muffin recipe to brighten your new year. If you are craving something sweet, you can make these special muffins in no time. Ingredients: 1 cup ……….. plain flour (maida) 1/2 cup …….. chocolate chips (grate a chocolate bar if you don’t have these) 1/2 cup …….. dried cranberries, chopped […]