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Aditi, Aparna, Malini, Nalini, Nandini, Sandhya, Medha, Ranjani, Rajni, Gauri, Nirupama, Savitri, Madhumati Yashasvini Sandhya, Vidya, Damin...

So what was all the fuss about four little triangles of cloth, totaling up to about as much fabric as it takes to make a saree blouse? Well,...

Oriana Fallaci died a few days ago at the age of 77. Perhaps the best way to describe one of modern day journalism’s most incandescent figur...

There’s a neem tree outside my house. You wouldn’t think this of it as you see it tower majestically over almost all the other tree in the l...

The final day of the Mahamastakabhisheka at Shravanabelagola. Like the turmeric and coconut water and sandalwood paste and milk and all the ...

What’s this love-shove? I saw the saddest thing yesterday Sheryl Crow on Larry King Live. Sheryl Crow, 44 years old. As Wikipedia describes...

It’s only words……… “Once upon a time, there was a noetic young boffin called Jcak Fruit, who fell in love with a bobby-dazzler called Molly ...

George Eliot said Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. And we allow pain to conquer us all the time. I learn this everyday in my yoga prac...

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"Sitting the wall of the studio, I saw a man wearing a muffler and a cap and holding a black stick. He was imitating everyone who pas...

Little drops Little drops of water Little grains of sand Make the mighty Ocean And the pleasant land There are approximately 1.6 million spe...

There are many sides to the great Kishore Kumar that we never see and because we miss so much of him, especialy the achingly sweet composer,...

The seconds coagulate Into a minute The minutes dissolve In the pool of an hour, The hours are raindrops Of a cloud - day Who sidles up to h...

Okay people, what the hell is a prêt line? Which more or less says all that there is to be said about my fashionableness quotient. But let m...

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 ...