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Comfortably Numb

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Feature: Crows, a love story

Crows, a love story They come together every day,…

Photo Feature: Himachal Heights

All photos by Sheila Kumar. All images are subject to copyright. Blue skies, crowded hill towns….. A glimpse of Solan between trees. The Shimla Hills, shrouded in gauzy blues. The original cottage in Jutogh cantonment near Shimla where Bishop Cotton started his school. St…

Feature: Tribute to Delilah

My, my, my Delilah… It was an Ambassador car, a stodgy vehicle, caramel in colour. It was of 1963 make and quite the pride and delight of my armyman father. I can`t quite remember when and why the Amby went in for a makeover. But makeover it was, because when she returned from…

Feature: Andaleeb Wajid and Kite Strings

There is nothing overly sentimental about this girl’s life. This is the young writer Andaleeb Wajid’s first novel and after you read it, your predominant feeling is that Kite Strings deserves a better editor. Mistakes mark the book, ranging from small typos to glaring grammatical errors but here’s the thing: they…

Feature: The importance of humour

Laugh your way to joy! As we celebrate World Laughter Day tomorrow, Sheila Kumar explains how humour has indeed become the best panacea of our times Can you do a piece to coincide with World Laughter Day, my editor asks me. Much mystified, I go online to dig up some information about World Laughter Day,…

Feature: The north-south divide

It has taken a good many years spent criss-crossing the north and south of India, for me to come to this conclusion: Kipling got his latitudes mixed up with his longitudes. When he famously remarked that East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, he ought to have laid that sentence…

Feature: The new face of humour

As the times rapidly change, the rich seam of humour we tap into is also rapidly changing. It`s black humour, but of course. The other good-natured, gentle ribbing really would not stand up to what we are seeing and experiencing in life these days. It`s black humour and it is everywhere; it has…

Feature: Artisanal coffee is a thing!

Artisanal Coffee Is A Thing So. Have you heard the one about the woman who walks into a coffee bar, eyes the toothsome barista and says, `Make me happy, Joe.` The barista looks at her with a smile, then says, give me a mo. The woman seats herself at a table nearby….

Feature: The Padma Lakshmi Interview

PHOTOGRAPHS: INEZ AND VINOODH Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best First Book, and her recently released memoir Love, Loss And What We Ate is garnering both critical acclaim and bestseller status across the world. Padma Lakshmi talks to Sheila Kumar about her new book There is a faint note…

Feature: Hallyu Bol! The Korean Wave

Food to language, India goes on a K-trip! Indians — especially the youth — are learning Korean, eating kimchi and travelling to Seoul to sample the life shown on their favourite TV dramas, and films. W-Two Worlds. BigBang. 2 PM. DOTS. EXO. BTS. I’m sorry to have to break this to you but if you…