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 […]
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Soft Focus: Shernaz Patel
Note: I met Shernaz Patel in 2007 and it was a moment of personal significance considering, I grew up watching her on TV in the best years of Doordarshan and had read about her, without ever imagining that I would be interviewing her, one day. It was hard to look at Shernaz Patel and not […]
Theatre Of Life
When the lights flood the dusty space above a wooden platform, the darkness beyond its length, from where applause comes as a storm, the boundaries of lines and curves, within which art unfolds on-stage, as the colors of make-up, and volumes of wigs and costumes define a character’s cage, the aesthetics of art, rubbed upon each […]
Imtiaz Ali,The Rockstar Auteur
An aside. There is a moment in Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal, when after being mugged by two hoodlums in a strange country, Saif Ali Khan sits beaten and broken by more than just the blows he has just received. And suddenly, the face of Meera, a woman he thought he had forgotten flashes before […]
The Family Hotel-Part 7
Acclaimed author of The Dollmakers’ Island, Anu Kumar brings a treat for the readers of Unboxed Writers in the form of an unpublished novella that will be carried in nine parts. Here is a brief introduction. Three generations of a family have maintained a hotel that suddenly finds itself close to a new boundary line when India and Pakistan are partitioned. And as guests become […]