LONELY IN A CROWD

A woman reveals her a-sex drive over a conversation in the nude Asexuality. This word has complex meanings, open to interpretation. But to avoid that discussion, the asexuality described here is when a human is not attracted enough to anyone sexually — none of the three genders. Not necessarily because the person is immune to […]

INDIA’S UMAMI BOMB

Hing, arguable the world’s smelliest spice is an olfactory shock for westerners but an integral part of Indian cooking Umami is a word that has been defined and in existence since 1908, but it is only lately — say the last two decades — that chefs, gourmands and food writers have been talking about it. […]

BEST FAVOURITES FOREVER

Let’s take a look at how various creatives around the world, from MIRA Nair to STEVE JOBS go about their clothing choices In all those years, whenever Steve Jobs walked down the grandstand at every Macworld conference to present a new offering from Apple to the world, there was one thing that stayed unchanged. It […]

NO SONGS FOR SUMMER

The Hindi film industry has produced very few songs for this season, compared to the other three seasons. Perhaps love is scorched by the tropical sun While literary scholars can argue what T S Eliot actually meant when he called April the cruellest month, it rings true for India. It’s not always about what April […]

ON THE PROWL

Online dating has opened a medium for many to find love in the age of no time. Many have been succesful but many have also been harassed, duped, stalked and worse killed Where do people go to find love these days? A bar and even mutual friends may have been the source for many, but […]

A TALE OF DRAMA AND PASSION

After making bold films with a strongly feminist theme, Aruna Raje has penned her own life story, full of rich material that could inspire a film Aruna Raje Patil started her career as one of the first woman technicians in the Hindi film industryand went on to become a famous film-maker. She started out making […]

NOVEL CREATIONS

Great works of literature have not done too well as movies whereas mediocre books do better. Film-makers must find a way adapt the missing word More than a decade ago, in the afterglow of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, VS Naipaul said that novels had outlived their utility and were likely to […]

TREAT YOUR BODY WELL

How much is too much treatment? Sometimes you have to decide for yourself, based on what you’ve read or the experiences of other patients More people are killed by chemotherapy than by cancer, says a recent news report. Well, it may be a typical media simplification of a carefully worded scientific report. But it is […]