In which a little bit of Greece comes to Mumbai

- By Deepa Krishnan In 2007, before the era where food shows took over Indian television, I went to a little village called Zaros in the isl...

Why I love Navratri season

- By Janaki Krishnan For youngsters, Navratri is a time of dance and merriment, through playing dandiya with friends and loved ones. It is ...

A wedding (and cool biryani!) at Chamda Bazaar

-by Aishwarya Pramod Recently my mother and I attended a wedding reception at Chamda Bazaar (in Dharavi). The bride was the sister of Fahim,...

Of temples and food

 - By Deepa Krishnan I've been doing a lot of food walks lately. Last month I did a Matunga food-walk for the BMW-Guggenheim Foundation...

We are like this only

In a Mumbai living room, doting grandparents, grand-aunts, grand-uncles, aunts and uncles gather around a little laptop screen. Everyone is ...

Welcome summer

By Janaki Krishnan Mumbaikars welcome summer for many reasons - happy holidays for children, travel plans for the family, and of course, Alp...

Men, women and bonding

My friend Raju posted a link to an article from the Wall Street Journal about how men and women have different types of friendships: Friends...

Old is Gold. Or is it?

- By Deepa Krishnan On April 15 (Poila Baisakh, the Bengali New Year), a Bangladeshi writer I know wrote an article bemoaning the loss of tr...

Taking the local train

- By Aishwarya Pramod This year I started travelling by local train for the first time. Throughout my school days, I'd been a princess g...

My Mother

- By Janaki Krishnan It is Mother's Day today. The morning newspaper is full of pictures of celebrities proclaiming their mothers' r...

Celebration

- by Deepa Krishnan . Today my daughter went out with friends, to celebrate the end of her 10th Standard CBSE Board exams. For a month now, ...

Valentine, Schmalentine

- by Deepa Krishnan At breakfast yesterday, my 15-year old daughter put down the newspaper in irritation. "What's all this fuss ab...

2009 starts well

I've been silent for nearly 3 weeks. A lot has happened. Mainly, my dad went into surgery for what we suspected was throat cancer, but f...

Hair secrets

- By Janaki Krishnan Kerala women are known for their long, lustrous black hair. Their secret? Traditional hair care methods. I remember my ...

Thirty minutes in an imaginary world

- By Janaki Krishnan . Mumbai is a crowded city. Noise and air pollution are beyond acceptable limits. But I still enjoy my evening walk alo...

A Welcome August

- By Janaki Krishnan As the month of August arrives, I remember my childhood years and the pleasant memories of my student life at SIES High...

Birthdays

- by Janaki Krishnan The news in the morning paper caught my eye. It had a cheerful photograph of South Africa's first black president,...

Summer games

The summer holidays are here, and my daughter and niece are bored. School is closed but it is too hot and humid to play outside. There's...