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Ingredients and Quantity Philadelphia cheese: 450g Castor sugar: 135g Fresh Cream: 100g Condensed milk: 250g Flour: 25g Egg white: 2nos. Egg yolk: 3nos. Digestive biscuit: 200g Melted butter: 100ml Cream the cheese and add 100g of sugar in it. Pour Fresh cream and condensed milk in it. Mix it thoroughly. Make a […]
Kalidasa is India’s greatest classical poet and dramatist, and his rendition of the story of Shakuntala is his most famous play. As part of their highly acclaimed ongoing series that seeks to bring the great poet’s oeuvre to a new generation of readers, Penguin Classics offers a new translation of Kalidasa’s work; Abhijnanashakuntalam, The Recognition of Shakuntala. […]
I sit and watch As the sun goes down into the purple horizon And the eye-lids grow heavy with the weight of years. I strain my eyes, and see… swarming tiny hands From another time-zone Tapping on the window-pane, With umpteen questions Lurking on the finger-tips Seeking to take Stock of my life… What I did […]
I caught a glimpse of a serial on television the other day. This was the scene – a blind wife throws herself at the husband’s feet begging to be allowed to stay with him. Her disability is seen as a major hindrance that prevents her from doing her wifely duties and chores. Well-wishers urge the […]
The Empty Nest syndrome had frightened me even when my boys were studying. As I live in a small town that doesn’t enjoy the luxury of MNCs and a corporate sector, I knew the little birdies would very soon take wings to scale unknown heights. And the impending ‘retirement’ too had been staring me in […]
We always tend to classify our life into well-defined, sharply contoured pigeonholes: childhood – youth – middle age – old age.On a more practical and functional level, we divide this linear time into segments of education, professional life, marriage, parenthood, retirement and more. But what after that? All through our life, we move on with […]
Garv: Pride and Honour was a movie Salman Khan starred in 2004. The film was about how the righteous brother and upright cop played by Salman avenges the rape of his sister. We will get to the irony of that theme later but this film directed by Puneet Issar was insufferable, tacky and turned rape into, like […]
For the uninitiated, Sanil Sachar is a 23- year- old author from Delhi, whose first book Summer Promises and Other Poems was published in 2013. He started writing during his time in England, where he completed his high school and graduation. He is an avid footballer apart from being a writer who aspires to inspire and lives […]
Pan Macmillan presents The Trap by Melanie Raabe. About the book: Twelve years ago, Linda’s sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw him. Now, all these years on, she’s just seen him again. On TV. He has since become a well-known reporter, and Linda – a famous novelist and infamous recluse – […]
Pan Macmillan presents Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. This exquisite collection of stories is for anyone who loves Allende and Marquez. Welcome to Helen’s world of lost places and lost people, of love and cruelty, of keys that haven’t found their locks . Praise: ‘Oyeyemi’s imagination is impressive and vast . […]
Pan Macmillan presents Zero K by Don DeLillo, the wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from one of the great American novelists of our time. This is an ode to language, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. DeLillo’s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel Zero K weighs the darkness of […]