Ratna-Rajaiah-Blogs

Requiem for a thali photograph from http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/india.htm A gleaming steel plate in which sit several eq...

Where have all the Sadhana cuts gone? “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol It was a chocolate-coloured saree...

GOBI MANCHURI Photo: http://www.geetesh.com/coorgmysore/pages/08.html Forget Mysore pak. Forget Mysore masala dosa (if such a thing ever exi...

Freelancelot First, let’s see what this must seem like from where most of us – barring Bill Gates maybe? – spend most of our lives enviously...

Revisiting a palace, a tomb and lessons in Hindutva Two monuments. One a tomb in Baroda, the final resting place of Ustad Faiyyaz Khan who ...

The Southie’s dhoti and how to rattle it ( Or how to diddle your mundu) Other men gird their loins, Southie men gird their dhotis. Underesti...

Money talk It’s a man’s world honey Cause he’s got the money And you don’t Think about it Why its Mister Money Bags, sweetie are you surpris...

The Filmfare Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood By Ratna Rajaiah No, I am not hallucinating, just doing a bit of " I-told-you-so....