Whole cauliflower in spicy tomato olive sauce. Photograph by Aashim Tyagi. This recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver's whole baked cauliflower in tomato olive sauce. I have simply substituted some of the Mediterranean flavours for distinct Indian ones. What I love about Jamie Oliver's recipes is
Puducherry, 2010 · Photograph by Aashim Tyagi
When I was in school, I had this rather fearsome teacher who always looked like she had a hatchet hidden away in her obscenely large bag. It wasn’t so much the bag or its size that bothered me, but the loving way in which she cradled it. It was
Today, ladies and gentlemen (especially the ladies), I present to you John Constantine. For the next few minutes, I would like to ask you all to forget about the Keanu Reeves movie and completely eradicate traces of its existence from your mind. Trauma-inducing as it was, thankfully, the books are
I first came across Tishani Doshi in an issue of Vogue India, where she did a feature on wearing pink. I read the feature, looked at her beautiful face, checked out the clothes she wore, and moved on to the next page---not much of a first encounter. Recently, I came
It’s difficult to come to a consensus on a CocoRosie album. Their music has a tendency to oscillate between unbearable pretension and spine-chilling beauty---a strange mixture of sounds, beats, and usually unintelligible vocals that leaves a decidedly heady but inconclusive aftertaste. On their fourth offering Grey Oceans (and their
Whenever history is reconstructed in fiction, its authenticity is invariably questionable. Author Tabish Khair, being aware of that, clarifies his stance in the very beginning by stating that “any story worth retelling is a true story”. This being established, the reader can put all doubts to rest and get ready
Iron Maiden. The Final Frontier. I could really stop this review right here. The gods return with (yet) another album, and honestly, after their brilliant last effort, I was beginning to wonder if they should have, believing that Ed Force One had peaked. It only took me a few minutes
So much for doing a Miller 'trilogy’ and ending it with a big bang. I thought I would write about The Spirit, a comic book (and movie) that I seem to be fond of for some strange reason… As you probably realise, ladies and gentlemen, that did not happen.
