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Prema Srinivasan’s ‘Pure Vegetarian’: A review

Prutha Chakraborty -
I may be a Mumbai-based Maharashtrian – with ancestral roots in Konkan – but I have a deep fascination for South Indian cuisines. Over...

First impressions: how opening lines shape literature

Ananya Thirumalai -
  “Here is one way I propose that you read this book.” That's how one of India’s most iconic works of fiction began. R.K. Narayan’s...

Shashi Tharoor: Lost in a wonderland of words

Vikas Datta -
  A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language, with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its...

Vegetarian can be yummy: New book of recipes

Chitra Sudarshan -
  When I got married decades ago, my mother gave me a recipe book in Tamil Samaiththu paar by Meenakshi Ammal. It was a bible...

Growing Up Indian In Australia: Review

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  The wonderful thing about anthologies is the sheer variety on offer; there’s something for everyone, an assortment of voices all pointing in their own...

How Mad Max got Swayam Ganguly interested in Aust cinema

Prutha Chakraborty -
  When Swayam Ganguly first saw Mad Max (1979) as a kid he was hooked. But the passion for Australian cinema grew much later on in...

What Gandhi thought of Australia

Prutha Chakraborty -
  In 1896, when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was working for the cause of his countrymen in South Africa, he first referenced Australia in his writings....

Ruskin Bond: My young readers want me to make ghosts scarier

IANS -
  There is almost as much to observe as to speak when one is at India’s most popular writer Ruskin Bond’s house in Landour, Mussoorie. Crisp...

Satyajit Das on “leaving the natural world alone”

Prutha Chakraborty -
  Most biologists and environmentalists, Satyajit Das thinks, have it wrong – they premise their analysis on the fact that man stands largely outside nature. “They...

Golden advice for the people in their silver years

Chitra Sudarshan -
  My father turned 100 last month, and as the family gathered to mark this momentous event, it was tinged with a little sadness as...

Support a South Asian writer: Sydney and Brisbane Writers Fest

Lakshmi Ganapathy -
  It’s the time of year where we’d rather not be out and about in the freezing weather (or at least, the paltry 11 degrees...

The Woman Seeker: Chinmaya Mission Trust’s new book

Sydney Srinivas -
  Many women seekers have decorated the spiritual space in India – some to an astonishing degree. Some of them have gone to the extent...
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