Chillies and Porridge (Edited by Mita Kapur) has an interesting if rather crowded jacket picture. A line-up of accomplished writers. A winner of a topic for an anthology: food. Chillies and Porridge should have made for truly delicious reading. And some of it does, but only some. Janice Pariat`s reflective eulogy to a breakfast staple of her […]
Penguin Random House presents, Rage of the River, The Untold Story of the Kedarnath Disaster by Hridayesh Joshi Three years after the Kedarnath disaster, stories from the valley—of pain and sorrow, Uttarakhand and central governments’ indifference and the corporate goof-ups, and the courage and heroism shown by the locals in the face of an absolute catastrophe— have […]
Dia Mirza is all set to chill her fans in India’s first Horror Web Series, Shockers. After starring in the country’s first Indo-Iranian project, Salaam Mumbai and tapping a whole new segment of television audience with her solo travelling series, Ganga-The Soul of India, the actor is now all set to take the web by storm. Dia […]
What you seek, is seeking you. – Rumi Ever since I started traveling, I have been waiting for this big trip that will change my life and I will come back this whole new person. While every new journey has been a completely unique and exciting adventure, I always find myself coming back and easily […]
Teaching is just another form of learning. And most of the time, you meet teachers in the unlikeliest of places. Once while teaching a class of post graduate students of media studies, I was told by a young girl, “You know ma’am..if you have something to offer, you will never go hungry. There will always […]
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 […]
Today I find myself at the park again but this time I brought a pen and some paper so I don’t need to struggle with the tiny keyboard on my phone. So many emotions. So many thoughts. So many things that I want to put down on paper. They keep swimming around in my consciousness […]
If no one ignites my inner light, how am I supposed to know if I shine? You could say I shine by myself, but what if a spark needs to be ignited? A fire can’t always burst into flames by itself, it’s brought to life. Like you did. With me. And like fire, you can extinguish me, […]
What is a heartbreak if not a long and rocky path, with no visible end? You have to walk through pain, rain, cold and drought, wearing the same squeaky shoes, and a heart tirelessly screaming of pain, on this long and endless road. You see the little things and the overwhelming things. You see […]
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 […]