Located in Khar, Bombay, Sanctum is a lifestyle store with a difference---it aims to bridge the gap between high-end luxury furniture, run-of-the-mill, everyday pieces, and those found at street stores, which more often than not are of dubious quality. This is owner Sandhya Gorthi’s second store, the first being
Giving up your own interests and most prized possessions for someone you love is the kind of selfless act that can define the very purpose of your existence. Shriram Iyer's debut novel Wings of Silence sheds some light on the significance of relationships and the act of giving.
What is the one state of mind that dominates your day? I suspect it’s the same as mine: boredom. There are a million things to do---articles to be written, clothes to be washed, meals to be cooked, and books to be read. If I tried I would find the
This is the golden era of the snapshot culture. Everyone has a camera and everyone takes pictures. But does a snapshot exist in a place where there is no time? If nothing changes, will taking a picture still be the same? How would it matter if you took the picture
It’s not an easy task to introduce Byomkesh Bakshi to the general reading public. As a publishing house and as a translator, you’d have to factor in the large number of fans Sarandindu Bandyopadhyay’s fictional detective already has; or even tougher, grapple with introducing such a cult
Anjum Hasan is arguably one of India's most talented contemporary writers. Her first novel, Lunatic in My Head, was short listed for the Crossword Book Award in 2007. Neti, Neti, her second novel (published in 2009), was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize and short listed
A few weeks ago, on the eve of turning 26, I spent a whole weekend gawking at the incredible artwork that unfolded in front of me. Whoever first said never judge a book by its cover had obviously not come across Craig Thompson’s masterpiece Habibi. Such is its brilliance
“Sometime in the first half of 2009, on a Delhi-Guwahati flight, I read an article in the in-flight magazine about handmade paper being made somewhere in Rajasthan,” says M. C. Bora, a retired Chief General Manager of Coal India Limited, about his initial foray into the paper-making industry. In rhino
I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain, And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain. ---Rain, Shel Silverstein The season of dreams in my country is drawing to a close. Eyes pregnant with expectation are trained skywards, scanning the heavens for a sign that
As a line from this book goes, “It’s the mother of all swears---mother swear!” And it is surely the mother of all entrepreneurial beginnings. Two friends---an enterprising M.B.A. hopeful and a not-quite-an-engineer---dream up a company worth a million dollars on a paper napkin in a dark Bangalore
Packing up my flat the night before my final flight home, I took stock of the physical remainders of my time living in India. I lost a lot of good shoes in the Mumbai mold wars; almost all my clothes were utilitarian at best. My toiletries were now mostly preventative