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...
Sydney’s Sanjeev Mehra in Kareena-starrer The Buckingham Murders
A midnight call from India and a week later Indian-Australian actor Sanjeev Mehra was involved in a murder mystery at Buckinghamshire, England.
The new release...
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...
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...
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...