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Plating memory: Elana Benjamin’s cookbook on Indian-Jewish food

  How do you honour an aging parent’s legacy in a way that feels most meaningful? And when that parent’s love language was cooking up...

‘My superhero voice’ starting conversations on child sexual abuse

  A picture book created in collaboration with the Australian Government aims to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse in multicultural communities. Launching last week...

Prema Srinivasan’s ‘Pure Vegetarian’: A review

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

  “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

  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

  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

  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...
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