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Celebrating the single life
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrating the single life

Live Mint  

In late 2019, on completing a decade of being single, Bengaluru-based author Sumaa Tekur decided to celebrate the milestone. “In the Indian context there were very few books that spoke about celebrating the single life and living alone,” she says, adding that she wanted to address the living arrangement that the single life entails, of having your own physical space …

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Joya Chatterji’s recap of South Asian history, Madhav Gadgil’s memoirs, Zadie Smith’s new novel and more
1 year, 3 months ago

Joya Chatterji’s recap of South Asian history, Madhav Gadgil’s memoirs, Zadie Smith’s new novel and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. Commenting on Roy’s body of work, the Charles Veillon Foundation, which confers the award, said that “Arundhati Roy uses the essay as a form of combat.” In Azadi, Roy reflects on the meaning of freedom in a world of “growing authoritarianism”, and her essays, the foundation said, offer shelter to …

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Review of Joya Chatterji’s Shadows at Noon — The South Asian Twentieth Century: A fascinating symmetry
1 year, 3 months ago

Review of Joya Chatterji’s Shadows at Noon — The South Asian Twentieth Century: A fascinating symmetry

The Hindu  

About a third of the way through her endnotes-heavy book, Joya Chatterji takes a step back from her recap of South Asian history of the 20th century. She is explaining how the state acquired shape in Pakistan at Independence/Partition, how it was a state governed by a migrant bureaucracy, with insufficient infrastructure at the time to house its central government …

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Interpol issues Yellow notice, will check on safety of film producer's kids in Pakistan
1 year, 7 months ago

Interpol issues Yellow notice, will check on safety of film producer's kids in Pakistan

India Today  

Interpol has told the Bombay High Court that it has issued the Yellow corner notice for filmmaker Mushtaq Nadiadwala’s two children, whose passports and visas have expired while they are with their mother in Pakistan. The bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sharmila Deshmukh was hearing Nadiadwala's plea seeking that his children who had been taken by his wife …

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BOOK EXCERPT | Basu, Hrishikesh, Gulzar and their failed dreams: An extract from ‘Basu Chatterji and Middle-of-the-Road Cinema’ by Anirudha Bhattacharjee
1 year, 8 months ago

BOOK EXCERPT | Basu, Hrishikesh, Gulzar and their failed dreams: An extract from ‘Basu Chatterji and Middle-of-the-Road Cinema’ by Anirudha Bhattacharjee

The Hindu  

How the 1990s struck the death knell for middle-of-the-road cinema in Bollywood. “For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Humour, romance and music, at times in isolation, and generally as elements of the same set made for the cinema of Basu Chatterji in the 1970s. “I was paid …

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The beloved 'snack of wealth' made on Delhi's streets
2 years, 5 months ago

The beloved 'snack of wealth' made on Delhi's streets

BBC  

The beloved 'snack of wealth' made on Delhi's streets IndiaPictures/Getty Images Close-up Of Vendor Preparing Daulat Ki Chaat Some vendors say moonlight and dew are the magic ingredients, but modern developments are moving this beloved sweet treat off the streets and into fine-dining restaurants. Rickshaw drivers don mufflers, morning chai becomes hotter and sweeter, and in Old Delhi's Chandni Chowk …

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Going beyond the Goan ’choris’
3 years, 4 months ago

Going beyond the Goan ’choris’

Live Mint  

Talk about Indian sausages and conversation is most likely to be dominated by paeans to the chouriços de Goa or, more popularly, choris—and not without reason. “A pork-shop staple in Bengaluru,” Radhica says, “are sausages spiced with a piquant green masala made with green chillies and fresh coriander, in addition to the mildly spiced pepper sausages.” The Muthappas have also …

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Going beyond the Goan ’choris’
3 years, 4 months ago

Going beyond the Goan ’choris’

Live Mint  

Talk about Indian sausages and conversation is most likely to be dominated by paeans to the chouriços de Goa or, more popularly, choris—and not without reason. “A pork-shop staple in Bengaluru,” Radhica says, “are sausages spiced with a piquant green masala made with green chillies and fresh coriander, in addition to the mildly spiced pepper sausages.” The Muthappas have also …

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