potatoes and peas in tomato sauce, with roti and buttermilk (yoghurt thinned with water, flavoured with cumin)

A most haunting post by Coffee House , who encountered a crowd here in Chennai, staring at a dead baby in a ditch.

I thought I'd post a week of breakfasts and kolam designs -- Mary the cook also makes the rice-flour kolam at our doorstep, a new desi...

From The Guardian : A Morning Beer in Pakistan . Murree Brewery, Pakistan's lone beer factory in a country under prohibition.

Today's New York Times Magazine has an interview with Meera Nair , in connection with the release of her new film, Vanity Fair . ( Fil...

A few things from this morning's The Hindu : Monumental task: Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple in Mylapore gets a facelift - another articl...

We bought a new car last week. Today I received a letter from the company which sold it to us, signed by one Mr. Heavenly. I love that nam...

Sri Kapaleeswarar temple is the largest temple in Chennai. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva. On the occasion of its Mahakumbhabishekam festiv...

Nothing much to write about, so here are a few scrapings: Two days ago there was a Jain holy day. A Jain friend called from Calcutta to a...

From The Guardian : Meat-eaters soak up the world's water A change in diets may be necessary to enable developing countries to fe...

I recently posted about the new website of the Prince of Arcot , and mentioned that I hadn't found a mention of the Arcots' original...

I went to an ENT doctor to get my ears cleaned. I do this every couple of years, because when I walk out afterwards, the sounds almost sizz...

It’s made of what is called country-wood – that is, not a fine hardwood like teak, or sheesham or rosewood. It had originally been ...

Two sisters kill each other's husbands MUMBAI, AUG.18. In a fit of rage, two sisters allegedly shot dead each other's husbands i...

The current Prince of Arcot, Mohammed Ali, who is known for his work toward harmony between religions, has created a website, which opened t...

In the last several months we’ve seen a number of Iranian movies on DVD. We both feel intense admiration for the director Abbas Kiarostami....

Sorting through old photographs I came across this, of the land across the street from us, before it was stripped, leveled and surrounded by...

BBC launches Tamil film music series . See Also BBCTamil.com I saw it on All About George : Padma Lakshmi, glamorous Chennai-born ...

This is fun. If only there were options for the inside of the head: Build a better Bush

This is a vexed subject, which has become emotional and politicised, and I know almost nothing about it. But what the heck, it’s very inter...