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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One of the most memorable one liners delivered by Chef Marco Pierre White on MasterChef Australia is,”Generosity is the greatest garnish.” And it is possibly true that generosity of spirit separates a great cook from a good one. Meeting Calicut’s culinary doyenne Abida Rasheed reaffirms this fact. At the Moplah Food Fest at Novotel Bengaluru Techpark’s […]
When the kitchen is not just a place for opening cans or tearing the tops of boxes, it offers the thrill of creation which is shared with poets and sculptors painters and musicians when one is inspired to cook a new dish. This is the essential spirit of Kitchen Poems… an experience, an exploration of […]
Once in a while, along comes a book written at the cusp of imagination and craft. This slim volume that released a few months ago, tells a compellingly ordinary story and tells it in style. The protagonist is a middle-aged housewife running to a little fat, going about her everyday life: tending to her truant son, verily […]
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies comes the biggest non-fiction book of the year. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History is a brilliant and definitive account of the gene and he combines approachable and scintillating science with a deft human touch. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of […]
Art Houz presents a Printmaking Workshop in which 10 artists from different parts of the country will participate. The artists will work in the two most olden forms of printmaking – Woodcut & Etching. The duration of the workshop will be 2 weeks, from 21 May – 4 June 2016. The workshop will be open […]
There are many ways to think about writing. And only one way to unthink the jargon. By just writing. And then writing some more. If you were to ask writers who have been published a lot just what they have learnt about writing, they will possibly give you different answers or a response that is […]
Because we seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue, Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love simplifies our way. Penguin Books announces the launch of Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love. The story is about how Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Society tells […]
1.00 – 3.30 pm | 17th of May | Alliance Française cafétaria The Charlotte au chocolat holds many secrets that our chef Cyril is eager to unveil : whip egg whites, stir chocolate, make a syrup and demystify a chocolate mousse as well the famous ‘Lady Finger’ biscuits. Enjoy this wonderfully delicious cookout on 17th May. Organised […]
On the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on May 17th, Alliance Francaise de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre would like to invite you to the reading of the play “8” by Dustin Lance Black. The story of same sex marriages seems to repeat itself world over and the debate continues. Here […]
Penguin Random House presents Fool Me Once,a slick thriller that examines what you can believe and who can you really trust. This intense and multi-layered story has a conspiracy and is exciting, poignant and insanely readable. Dark secrets and a terrifying hunt for the truth lie at the heart of Fool Me Once. In the […]
On Le Corbusier’s 50th death anniversary, a photography exhibition has been organised by Alliance Francaise de Bangalore. The backdrop: Chandigarh has the unique attribute of being the only completely inhabited city designed by Le Corbusier. The photographer Ajay Bhatia considers himself fortunate that the city has been his home for more than three decades now. He says, […]
On 8th May, Maraa presents two films by Mani Kaul on the themes of human labour. The Indian Woman (1975) | Dir: Mani Kaul | 20 mins Uski Roti (1970) | Dir: Mani Kaul | 110 mins Venue: Maraa, 2nd Floor, Glasscrafters Studio, No 3, Michaelpalya. (Off 80 ft. Road, Indiranagar) Landmark: Sapna Book Store, […]