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There is such a diversity in cuisines that fine dining completely overshadows: Sri Bodanapu of Heirloom Cities

New Delhi, July 25 -- In 2010, San Francisco-based Sri Bodanapu, now in her 40s, left a decade-long career in tech to go to baking school in Paris. It was a daring move for someone who had grown up in... Read More


Drown All the Refugees by Tabish Khair review: Between the shadow and substance of being a refugee

New Delhi, July 25 -- Tabish Khair's new novel derives its title from a statement made by its unnamed narrator to a fellow writer at a literary festival on the island of St Martin in France. On a booz... Read More


How Gen Z triggered corporate India's 'effort recession' by demanding clear purpose over endless overtime

New Delhi, July 20 -- One of my favourite genres of social media content features a variation around the following theme: a bully manager and a brazen Gen Z character lock horns over an unfair demand ... Read More


The good samaritans who care for our feathered friends

New Delhi, July 19 -- On a recent afternoon in Jacobpura, a nondescript, dusty neighbourhood in Gurugram's Sector 12 sweltering in the summer heat, a stranger walks into the crammed front office of th... Read More


Manil Suri explores love, guilt and longing in his powerful memoir, 'A Room In Bombay'

New Delhi, July 11 -- Manil Suri's memoir, A Room in Bombay, is dedicated to "Prem". It becomes clear in the first few pages that it refers to his late mother, Prem Suri nee Bindra. The decision to re... Read More


From Rohith Vemula to Cockroach Janata Party, the demands for justice that tie India's youth movements

New Delhi, July 5 -- It's nearly a month since members of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) and their supporters gathered at New Delhi's Jantar Mantar on 6 June to stage a public protest. Despite extre... Read More


How architects are rethinking housing design to address rising heat in Indian cities

New Delhi, July 3 -- In 2023, when Kamran Haider decided to build a home for his family in Noida, he had two main requirements in mind. "I grew up in a range of houses-from DDA flats to farmhouses to ... Read More


In Ann Patchett's new novel 'Whistler', a father and daughter reunite after 44 years

New Delhi, June 25 -- Ann Patchett's new novel, Whistler, tells the story of the reunion between Daphne, the narrator, and her stepfather, Eddie Triplett, 44 years after they had last met. They run in... Read More


How a medical crisis led a Dutch writer to embrace his non-binary identity

New Delhi, June 14 -- In an undated but not too distant past, Dutch writer and artist Valentijn Hoogenkamp, who now identifies as non-binary and uses the he/him pronouns, discovered that he had the de... Read More


'Snowed Under' by Nirmala Thomas: A woman's lonely battle against breast cancer, and society at large

New Delhi, June 13 -- Nirmala Thomas's novel Manjil Oruval, translated from the Malayalam as Snowed Under by Radhika P. Menon, has an unusual coda. Written by Dr M.V. Pillai, clinical professor of onc... Read More