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Feature: Bangalore`s wines

There`s a wine renaissance happening in Bangalore. It was just a matter of time before someone woke up to the fact that Bangalore’s rich, loamy soil, warm days and cool nights, its temperate climate was good, maybe even ideal, for producing the best varietals of grape. Then, of course, there was no looking back. When…

Photo Feature: A Ladakh journey

Ladakh by road: 2013 All photographs…

Colours: A Story from Kith and Kin

Colours Green vine. Beena had just turned 22. The first time was exciting in its own way, if exciting was the precise word she was looking for. It took place at Mon…

Humour: The aftermath…of writing a book

The aftermath I have to ask. Are you old enough to remember those films in which, just before the end credits rolled, there appeared a sentence outlined in lurid pink or blood red: ‘This is not The End, this is just The Beginning’…? That sentence was so simplistic, viewers missed the enormous profundity it contained….

Book review: Foreign by Sonora Jha

In that limbo An NRI is forced to face issues concerning herself and her country, issues she had turned her back on. Foreign works on two levels. It is about Katya (Katyayini) Misra acknowledging how she feels now she’s back in India after years away. She looks wincingly at the dismal situation in a small…

Feature: The Jaisim Interview

Jaisim and the Art of Objectivism At 50, when he sits back and takes stock of his life and career, architect Jaisim allows a small smile to flit across his face. The houses, offices, retreats…

Humour: A question of pedigree

A question of pedigree He was gifted to us, a week-old bundle of sable brown fur and unfocussed grey eyes. The resident pedigree took one look at him and a look of sheer horror came into her eyes. Ever since, her only reaction has been a policy of cold ignoring interspersed with occasional snapping. “Definitely traces…

Feature: Vineyard Musings

Vineyard tours are catching on СНПЧ Epson хостинг joomla There’s no better way to spend a lazy Sunday in Bangalore than to go wine-tasting, discovers Sheila Kumar. Some days are so typical of our city, Bangalore should take out a patent on them. This Sunday is one such. The sun is playing peek-aboo with the…

Feature: When BFFs Break Up

Heartbreak comes in pink, too I don’t want to sound like I’m writing the sequel to Men are from Mars…. but let’s take the masculine parallel first. When two men move back and away from what seemed to be a convivial friendship, for reasons best known only to the two, and about which they will…

Feature: Khadi Goes Haute

Khadi in the limelight Humble? Coarse? Beige? Not any more. Reincarnated in gossamer-fine, supple and coloured avatars, India’s freedom fabric is having a fashion moment all over again. Danish textile designer Bess Nielsen’s store in Paris is named after it. It has made it to the Star Wars films. Designer Christina Kim’s haute label Dosa stocks it….