Ananya’s ready to make a splash at VSSS
Singer Ananya Hariharan remembers when she first found out about the annual Victorian State School Spectacular (VSSS), via a Facebook ad her dad saw...
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...
Modak recipes with a difference
It’s Ganesh Chaturthi, and that means modak season. Not just for Ganesha, but us as well!
These sweet dumplings were Ganesha’s favourite (you‘ll always find...
Captivating Cusco
To the casual (and innocently misguided) observer, Peru is synonymous with one site: the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu. But Peru is so much...
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...