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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Ingredients: For the Dough 1.5 cups plain flour (maida) 1 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1 tbsp oil 1/2 cup warm water 2 tsp active dry yeast For the toppings I have used the classic ‘pineapple and green chili’ combination. The other pizza I tried was with paneer ( cottage cheese) , cherry tamatoes , […]
#1 – A sink full of vessels will not wash itself… even if u wait for two days! And even if you pray for it to grow a pair of hands! * #2 – Making chapatis is a lesson in Acceptance (of whatever shape emerges)… Letting go (of over-emphasis on perfection).. and Gratitude (for what […]
Hope on a gray day. A sprightly sunflower. A bunch of ox-eye daisies. A field of marigold. Sarson in full bloom. A vase of chrysanthemums in a room. A sweet round motichoor laddoo, a crisply succulent jalebi. Food for the body and the soul. Lemon tarts and coffee. A brightly beaked myna. An arch of golden trumpets. Lantanas in a […]
There is an undeniable joy of digging into the sourness of mom’s pickles, or opening up a cookie box that instantly hauls you away to grandma’s kitchen. Their old aprons splattered with bits of food. Their warm hands feeding you love and leaving you full, with not just a buttery goodness, but also a lifetime […]
Health defies definition. Modern medical science cannot sum up what health is; only this much is said: absence of disease is health. It is like defining a flower in relation to thorns. Why is health not defined? Because health comes from the innermost being of an individual. The Hindi word Swasthya means rooted in the innermost being. […]
It is Saturday night. Over roasted pumpkin soup, lawn cooled breeze and tinkling water that gleams in a long horizontal ribbon next to my feet, I feel a bit displaced. This is Bangalore, right? Just a few hours ago, I was choking over traffic fumes as I made my way to Alila, a relatively new hotel […]
Here is a simple muffin recipe to brighten your new year. If you are craving something sweet, you can make these special muffins in no time. Ingredients: 1 cup ……….. plain flour (maida) 1/2 cup …….. chocolate chips (grate a chocolate bar if you don’t have these) 1/2 cup …….. dried cranberries, chopped […]
Ingredients: 1 cup rice 1/2 cup each of toor dal, masoor dal, moong dal and chana dal 1 cup curd 1 cup cut spinach handful of methi (fenugreek) leaves 1 carrot shredded 1/2 cup green peas 1/2 cup bottlegourd shredded 2 green chillies 3 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste 1/2 tsp […]
Ingredients: 1……… cup sabudana 2 ………..green chillies 1 tsp ……….red chili powder 1/2 tsp …………cumin seeds 2 tbsp ……………roasted groundnut powder salt to taste 3 tsp …………….oil to cook in kadai 1 tsp…………… oil for microwave cooking 7 to 8………….. curry leaves 1 tsp ……….dessicated coconut (optional) 1 tsp ………….. sugar 1/2 tsp……………. turmeric powder […]
Chef Ali Mkram has the kind of face that reminds you of orange orchards and happy family picnics. A face of contented joy and peace. That he is from Syria, working in Bangalore as a chef for possibly Bangalore’s only authentic Lebanese restaurant is one of the many paradoxes you will see at The Ranoosh. […]
I normally experiment on days when I have time to experiment. That way, in the remote chance of a failure (ahem, ahem), I have time to whip up something familiar and comforting and hearty. I have also felt that wanting to experiment ONLY when I have time is not always a smart thing. It […]
As a child, I often wondered which tree bears the sabudana fruit. Maybe it’s a crop. But we never studied it, although we ate it so voraciously. I learnt where sabudana comes from only a few years back. Sabudana is made from Tapioca. Or sago. In India, its commercially produced as pearls of different sizes. […]