The powder puff has more dust sticking to it than the familiar smelling particles of Ponds talcum powder. The fragrance is as familiar to me as the hemmed borders of the electric blue printed frock that I used to wear almost every alternate day. The scorching summers would not allow room for sartorial experiments. Back […]
You can be surrounded by a room full of people and still feel alone…alone in your frustrating circumstances, grappling with seemingly inconsequential problems that no one really sees as problems. How you wish you had someone who would understand. And you could draw strength from your loved ones and fall back on their support. And […]
Bangalore Theatre Company presents Kannada play ‘Cherry Thota’ based on Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Cherry Orchard ’ on April 7, 2016 at 7:30 pm at Ranga Shankara. The play deals with the turbulent times of the then Russia when ‘serfdom’ had been just abolished and the society was moving forward. Cherry orchard, as a metaphor, suggests several things simultaneously; the beauty of […]
For a very good reason, pasta is one of the most popular foods in the world ! It is tasty, easy to cook and can be used in a wide variety of dishes. It’s also extremely satisfying to make from scratch and uses only two ingredients. So it can easily be made when there’s not […]
The death of Pratyusha Bannerjee underscores the distance between Indian television’s most popular narratives and reality where women do not always have monochromatic inner lives and a monumental forbearance that is almost as fake as the jewels worn by the Simars, the Gopis and the Anandis. ** The irony could not be more cruel. Pratyusha […]
Many a time we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations over and over again. Try as we might to deal with the past and bury it, some patterns keep repeating. At some point I came across an explanation for this phenomenon. Until you make peace with something or deal with it appropriately it refuses to go […]
The Alliance Française de Bangalore along with the Foundation Alliance Française is organizing a Photography Competition on the theme ‘Objectif Sport’. Sports have had a strong part to play in modern as well as traditional society. Thus, participants throughout the world will put in an image that depicts the best sporting activities in their countries. […]
An old woman bashes a bunch of puppies to death because she cannot stand the noise they and their mother are making in the neighbourhood. Visuals of a man killing stray dogs in Delhi go viral. A mother elephant and her babies are stoned randomly on the Wayanad-Mysore NH. A man is beaten and tied […]
Romanoff and Juliet is a play by Peter Ustinov. A comic spoof of the Cold War, it is set in the small mythical mid-European country of Concordia, whose leader is wooed by the United States and the Soviet Union, each one wanting him as an ally. Russia’s ambassador, a member of the Romanoff family, has […]
It is spring and nature’s beauty is in full bloom. Glorious flowers are being wooed by buzzing bees, lady birds, grasshoppers and ants. During the day, pigeons, crows, mynas, woodpeckers, parakeets and cuckoos can be seen going about their business. Some are collecting twigs as the nesting period has begun. Others are impatiently […]
William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault set the tone from the very beginning; I knew that nothing would go right for Lucy. Her story was melancholic, but it didn’t make me sob. I felt a distant pain, and it lingered for a while, as though my mind played a sad song over and over again […]
Penguin presents a comprehensive look into the ideologies and politics of Indian revolutionaries fighting for the nation’s Independence. Kama Maclean’s ‘A Revolutionary History of Interwar India’ gives a fresh perspective to the freedom struggle through the lens of image, voice and text. This book delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and actions of the […]