Saw Eric Rohmer’s A Tale of Springtime . He's very reliable – you will meet young, attractive, fairly prosperous people, who haven't...

In my study

On Thursday we drove down the East Coast Road for the first time after the tsunami, and went to lunch at Temple Bay, a resort near Mahabalip...

I've decided to put my efforts at making art into a separate blog, so that this one remains roughly India-themed: fire star arts The tro...

I've been reading Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings – part of my resolve to read at least one complete bo...

my Bahawalpuri shoes (for the Everyday Matters group shoe challenge)

I have so little to tell these days, it has taken me a week to find a few paragraphs. The days are still balmy, the evenings breezy, but vey...

I haven't seen the new film Alexander ; to me, Alexander will always look like Prithviraj Kapoor (founder of a Bollywood dynasty which ...

"We invite all on the occasion of honouring our Founder Sri. KAKA. A. SHUNMUGA NADAR on his Centenary Birth Anniversary by releas...

There's so much wonderful writing around, and today I don't feel that I can write at all, and even if I did, what? Talk about fiddl...

via moleskinerie : I spent a good chunk of the day looking at this amazing sketchbook: Carnets de digestion . This page expresses a lot ...

I went to Suriya Greens, and bought tomatoes, big white onions in a small net bag, potatoes, zucchini, yellow peppers, carrots, black eggpla...

Yesterday and the day before, we saw (twice) one of the best Indian movies ever. It was certainly no less than the great films of Adoor Gop...

My staff ran in a panic yesterday afternoon, but toward the ocean, to find out whether their houses and families were safe. How long will i...

I got a good, rueful laugh from this -- from Selective Amnesia : Madras [i.e. Chennai] is famous, as most people will know, for its pothole...

I had earlier linked to an online test for implicit assumptons and biases . There's an extremely interesting article in Sunday's Wa...

Parveen Babi, one of the most beautiful, and notoriously troubled, Hindi film stars of the seventies (coincidentally, one of the stars of Am...

No spindly legs here! They are organic, bulbous as the outgrowths of pipal trees -- on the left, a faux-village coffee table (!?!); on th...

From The Hindu : Reservations keep fishermen from sea ...It has almost been a month since the tsunami struck. Not all boats, especiall...

Dilip D'Souza's blog, Death Ends Fun , has a charming piece about a visit to his grandfather's abandoned house, on Montieth Road...