College was, for me, to paraphrase Dickens, the best of times and the worst of times. And if I were asked to identify the one food item that most defined my time in college, and which encapsulated perfectly the vagaries of my student life experience, I would say it was
The latest in a spate of representations of same-sex couples is Myntra's excellent advert for brightly coloured Anouk ethnic clothing. If the success of an advertisement is measured by how much one wants to wear a kurta and have it blow about in the mostly non-existent breezes of
Illustrations by Dyuti Mittal The Hotel In the evening, he read by the light of dying astronauts. They fell, ablating in the atmosphere, artificial meteors illuminating the sky. The abandoned beachfront hotel which had been Ravi’s home was slowly crumbling. The shoreline had flexed like a snake, the sea
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
It was a cold December night at Jodhpur Railway Station. Passengers in monkey caps and shawls hurried towards their compartments with surprising swiftness, and the winter chill appeared to affect the platform’s resident mice as well, who were scurrying about everywhere, popping in and out of gaps under vendor
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
It’s not supposed to happen like this. I’m at a bar, one of those dimly-lit, sophisticated paeans to conversation and alcoholism, possibly even seduction, if things happen to go well. I’m surrounded by an Irish Booker Prize-winner, a high-ranking British diplomat, an Australian writer with more than
If you were at Juhu Beach early this morning, you might have seen an eclectic group of athletic individuals training hard at Juhu Beach. Punctuated by the sounds of aircrafts flying overhead and the soft, steady din of the people on the beach, the motley bunch, who call themselves the
Ancient Mughal miniature paintings and feminism are two things you don’t usually associate with one another. However, Bangalore-based writer and filmmaker Aarthi Parthasarathy has managed to combine the two into a weekly webcomic series called Royal Existentials, merging vintage art and contemporary social commentary, along with some subtle humour.
Anusha Parthasarathy is a reporter for The Hindu, and the creator of Meera, a one-of-a-kind comic strip for children in India. Illustrated by Ashok Rajagopalan, it appears weekly in The Hindu’s Young World supplement, and also exists as a webcomic at this location. According to Anusha, Meera exists to
Ever curious about your dying day? The Oracle of Tripe has all the answers. Won-Tolla presents the bewildering tale of a man who asks for it and, unfortunately, gets it.
In her debut novel Born Confused (2002), Tanuja Desai Hidier, a talented singer-songwriter and writer based in London, introduced us to Dimple Lala, her 17-year-old Indian-American protagonist from New Jersey. After its release, the novel was hailed by Rolling Stone and Entertainment Weekly as the one of the best young-adult