Chronicles from outside the Kitchen

(the best-ever spoof of the original) There is something almost cerebral about sitting in a cafe sipping a cuppa with good conversatio...

Diwali is the time for all things sweet and a representation of the victory of all things good. Drawing the two themes together is ...

 Kuala Lumpur or KL glitters by night. It is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis where towers and spires of chrome and glass exuding a diamond brill...

The crisp Sharad sky is corn blue and there is a light breeze fanning the dusty trees on the arterial roads of Calcutta. There is a part...

 It is a fact universally acknowledged that conversation at a Bengali dinner table will inevitably revolve around food and matters of t...

While The God of Small Things created ripples in the world of literature way back in the nineties, I waited 13 years to read Arundhati...

Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published in 1964 is something that has percolated through a myriad storytelling s...