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Feature: One shade of grey

One Shade of Gray The grey in my hair is attracting as much attention as good `ole Christian Grey. Okay, I’ll confess all. I made it happen. I orchestrated its debut. I’m talking about one switch of silver- grey that springs back from my left temple and cuts a narrow swath back a distance…

Travel: : Heybeliada Island, Turkey

Islet in the sun The writer visits a lovely Turkish island with no cars but plenty of shaggy dogs. It’s a gorgeous morning, a brisk wind rifling the surface of the Sea of Marmara, the sun still in a mild mood though we have crested the mid-day point. I’m on the deck of the Baris…

Travel: Ladakh

Stop here, or gently pass Preserve the land’s beauty with responsible change, says the writer, who returns to Ladakh after 29 years I stared around at Changspa, mouth agape. The long and winding street was full of tourists, mostly foreigners. They were everywhere, peering at the coral and turquoise knick-knacks on display in the…

Feature: The Nilanjana Roy Interview

Journalist, book reviewer and author Nilanjana Roy’s `The Wildings` goes with sure tread into animal territory, telling us the story of Mara and a brood of felines, cheels, crows, wild pigs; a whole caboodle of creatures, each one more interesting than the other. It’s the old tale of Good versus Evil but told…

Book review: Adrift by V Sudarshan

Survival saga A taut account of five men and a woman lost at sea. This slim volume that tells a taut tale; the true story of six people in a dinghy, drifting on the high seas with just their wits to keep them alive. In actual fact, it was just the equanimity of one individual…

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…