Review | Chef Farokh Talati’s ‘Parsi – From Persia to Bombay’ is an aspirational yet approachable cookbook

Review | Chef Farokh Talati’s ‘Parsi – From Persia to Bombay’ is an aspirational yet approachable cookbook

It is 8 a.m., and as Michael Bublé’s rich baritone reminds me that it is beginning to look a lot like Christmas, my kitchen fills with the warm, gently-spiced aroma of masala oats. A spicy carb is my favourite way to kickstart the day, and the version in Farokh Talati’s Parsi – From Persia to […]

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Book review | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Partition tale, Independence

Book review | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Partition tale, Independence

The cover of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s new book, Independence In her monumental novel, Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree asked, “Is every story really a Partition tale?” This English translation from the Hindi original Ret Samadhi was published early in 2022, in the 75th anniversary year of that event, and in its most nobly audacious passages, […]

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Review of Chandresh Narayanan’s 75 Years of Indian Sports — Game, Guts, Glory: As the millennium turned, so did India’s sporting fortunes

Review of Chandresh Narayanan’s 75 Years of Indian Sports — Game, Guts, Glory: As the millennium turned, so did India’s sporting fortunes

A walk through India’s sports since Independence is timely, but falls short of explaining how standards were raised so dramatically A walk through India’s sports since Independence is timely, but falls short of explaining how standards were raised so dramatically When I began as a sportswriter in the 1980s, there was a touch of the […]

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Anthony Sattin’s Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World review: ‘Thoughts and ideas should always wander, now together, now apart’

Anthony Sattin’s Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World review: ‘Thoughts and ideas should always wander, now together, now apart’

Anthony Sattin takes a joyride with nomadic communities, and explores why ‘herders’ of the 21st century are being pushed to the edge Anthony Sattin takes a joyride with nomadic communities, and explores why ‘herders’ of the 21st century are being pushed to the edge “Where have they come from? Why have they come here? When […]

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