What do you usually say when someone asks you about your favourite colour? Is your answer visceral, immediate, or almost never pre-meditated? Well, mine has …
How Green Became my Favourite
Culture
Surreal Subaqeous
These artworks are digitally framed in surreal collage works. They are inspired by the exploitation of nature, which is slowly leading to a huge planetary …
6 Stories About Your Animal Friends
Banku to My Bhoothnath by Apurva Likhmania “Banku bhaiya” is what we call him. He is irritating, playful, energetic, smelly, and most importantly very lovely …
How It’s Made: Sex and Gender in Qissa
Qissa is a 2013 Punjabi language film by the director Anup Singh, written jointly by Singh and Madhuja Mukherjee. It explores various cultural practices and …
It was last Saturday
It was last Saturday. She ate cherries and drank a magic pop, and we read she read more than I read I kept asking her …
6 Food Stories We Loved
Medha Sharma’s Pandemic Memory I hate cooking. Not surprisingly, I do not have many memories associated with my kitchen. But what I do have is …
Avakaya
Someone at the table points to the jaronce stuffed to the brim with Mother’s Picklesbut now carefully filled with aged avakaya,and asks, “What’s that?” It …
Culinary Explorations of a Traveller: Kerala to Delhi
Savouring South Indian Delicacies A few years ago, I was travelling solo in the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and was quite …
Dishes Nobody Prepares Anymore
If you were a child in Germany in 1946and survival was your recipeyou would have knownall the dishes of those post-war years–Brennnesseln, Sauerampher, Bucheckern,Steinpilze, Pfifferlinge, …
Joy of Food
A man I loved handed me a plate of nachos suprême in 1969, he said do as you may with it, I’m here to only …