Comfortably Numb

Sheila Kumar's Storehouse

Feature: On Heroes

    Heroes & villains Have we become a jaded nation, suspicious of placing role models on pedestals? Or, are we making heroes out of nonentities? I’m conducting an experiment. I start with my neighbourhood, then move in concentric circles to the world at large. This experiment consists of one question I ask the people I…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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Feature: How We Gave Ourselves A Food Upgrade

Even as haute cuisine deliberately downgrades  itself, are diners willy-nilly  undergoing an upgrade? The movement has all the subtlety and finesse of a glacier melting. Everything has happened at pretty much the same time. Lalitha,  give or take a ‘ji,’ now finds a wide gamut of ready-to-eat, hatke packaged meals on the store shelves. Kitchens transmogrify…

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Feature: The Women`s List

The Women`s List The blessings list, the wish list… Sheila Kumar rounds up the small things, the big things, all the things that give us glee, give us an attack of the wistful sighs! 30 Things Gals Have Going For Them • Sexy lingerie •Embroidered juttis • Levis 501 jeans • A white shirt • The…

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Feature: Blood Relations Play Review

Into the mind of a murderess WCC’s presentation of Sharon Pollock’s “Blood Relations” was a successful attempt at serious theatre. Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. What can one say about a woman who took a hatchet…

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Feature: You Are Your Closet!

You are your closet! Let`s sift the cottons from the chiffons and help you get your sartorial act together. You are your closet. It’s true, we swear to it. A closet is a form of philosophy, a world in its essence. The act of selecting your clothes, accessories and your look, calls for a Zen-like…

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