Try some methi magic
The distinctive yellow coloured fenugreek seeds are encountered in a wide variety of Indian cuisines. Methi or fenugreek is one of the healthiest Indian spices and has three culinary uses —...
View ArticleAirport smoking areas affect nearby sites
Airport smoking areas affect nearby sitesFive large-hub airports in the United States have designated indoor smoking areas. According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...
View ArticleNo longer a death sentence
What is the image that comes to our minds when we first think of cancer? Well, to my mind it is the image of middle-aged people and definitely not toddlers.Sneha (name changed), a chirpy energetic,...
View ArticleHot is not always cool
Although humans began wearing clothes to protect themselves from the harsh weather, clothes today are much more than mere covers. They have clearly become a fashion statement. What you wear today has...
View ArticleOf mistakes and punishments
Boy and girl live together, another girl comes to stay for a while. Doubts set in and boy and girl separate. First girl goes to another boy while first boy slowly falls for second girl. Soon, first...
View ArticleFans in frenzy as Rana rocks
Rana Daggubati simply rocks. With tailor-made sizzling script and equally energetic and fast-paced plotline, Rana lives the role ruling roost in Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum. And with svelte and dusky...
View ArticleTouching tale told truthfully
Spotlighting on trials and tribulations and pitiable plight of fishing fraternity, national award winning director Tehmerku Paruvakatru's Neer Paravi (Water Bird) turns out into touching and soulful...
View ArticleA search that takes you nowhere
Reema Kagti knows how to build suspense. Afilm star gets killed as the car he drives veers off and falls into the sea mysteriously.The viewer does his Sherlock bit, and keeps smelling for all possible...
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For a truly Asian experience...
When I reached KL (as Kuala Lumpur is fondly known), it was drizzling. In my hotel room, raindrops on the window glass refracted the colourful lights of the city, creating an illusion of a colourfully...
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Amidst forts and camels
Bikaner, fondly known as the desert city of India, provides endless opportunities to travel junkies. Replete with spectacular forts, ornate palaces and profusely carved shrines, the medieval city of...
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Hidden treasure
Bhaven jani visits the Canadian Rockies and finds it pristine, serene, unexplored and yet, completely accessible.With just 30 million people in a landmass twice the size of India, Canada is what you'd...
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Thoughts, ideas and opinions
There was pin-drop silence when Mona Eltahawy spoke of the so-called Arab Spring; how in November 2011, she was arrested in Cairo while covering renewed protests in Tahrir Square; and how she was...
View ArticleA step in the right direction
Physiologists have found that specific areas in the brain control specific abilities like memory and speech. I, for one, believe that there is one that deals with a sense of direction and which, for...
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Literary pilgrimage
Kalpana Sunder visits the Keats-Shelley Museum in Rome, and revels in the evidence of literary greats who once occupied the building, now a piece of literary heritage.A thing of beauty is a joy...
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Book Rack
The Sari Shop WidowShobhan BantwalFingerprint, 2012, pp 364, 250Anjali Kapadia, a 37-year-old widow, is devoted to transforming her parents' sari shop into a chic boutique. The store has been her...
View ArticlePolitical lesson
Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that making a moral too obvious in a story was like pushing a pin through a butterfly — it takes away its life and makes it unnaturally stiff. Wish Mark Gimenez...
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Three thriller tales
Film director Piyush Jha's debut into the world of fiction begins with the book Mumbaistan, comprising three separate crime thrillers. Each story is independent, a tale on its own, and each story...
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Never weary of the boss
The special claim of 'Bruce' is that Bruce Springsteen has co-operated with a biographer for the first time in a quarter century, writes Dwight GarnerBruce Springsteen has been, almost from the start...
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Weaving timeless beauties
Intricate Baluchari saris are works of art woven in silk. The borders and pallu are embellished with exquisite motifs inspired by the epics, mythology and traditional texts, as also scenes from courtly...
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The dizzying universe
In his photographs, French conceptual artist Philippe Ramette combines himself and the landscape in impossible situations to arrive at a world that fills you with this dizzying feeling of an illogical,...
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