An interesting interview with Danny Boyle , about filming Slumdog Millionaire in Mumbai. I particularly identified with this paragraph: AV...

Wondering what to post, I fell back on the amazing Wit and Humour in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council 1921-1971, Volume I . It is best to ...

An excellent blog about modern South Asian art: Masala Chai

In India, power failure is called load shedding. At the moment, we're having 1 1/2 hours of it every day; the Chennai suburbs three hou...

Boy, this is disgusting, from the New York Times: Vogue’s Fashion Photos Spark Debate in India That bib is likely priced at about two mont...

I had written a post, long back, about my first Tamil move: Pennin Perumai . There's a fun article in the Hindu, by Vijaysree Venkatram...

Five years ago, our neighbourhood was so quiet that visitors invariably exclaimed that it was hard to believe it was in the heart of the cit...

What a beautiful, simple love song this is -- Mora Saiyan Mo Se Bole Na (My beloved won't speak to me). I heard it somewhere, and track...

Someone living near us died recently in sad circumstances. As usual, I only found out about it from Mary, who came to me and said, "Th...

Trying to do a better job of drawing faces -- from photographs, in my new gray-white paged sketchbook: (late) Kishore Kumar, one of the grea...

I am honored that the literary/arts blog/ezine Qarrtsiluni has accepted my poem Lost at Sea for its latest issue, Water. There is a recor...

Photo by R. Ragu The Admiralty House, one of Chennai's few remaining fine old buildings, is being demolished. From The Hindu : CHENNAI:...

Goodness gracious, it's my blog's birthday again. The fifth. Happy blogday to me. And thank you, those who still come around and ...

Jillu Madrasi told me about this YouTube video, about a man who has invented a better way to climb a coconut tree. Wonderfully simple, eff...

April is National Poetry Month, and every year Knopf sends me a poem a day during April. (Though it's a bit late, they'll send you ...

I just finished reading an article in the March 3 New Yorker, “Numbers Guy – Are our Brains Wired for Math,” about the work of Stanislas Deh...

I was wondering what to make for lunch today, and I had a sudden craving for one of my father's favorite foods: bread and gravy. He gre...

One of the stems cut down by the coconut tree man. Destined to replace this one , which broke away from its sheath.

Today the ingredients of the poultice were assembled: turmeric, moth balls, rock salt, Sam's Fortified Neem Powder. The tree man superv...

Our cook, Mary, is the in-charge for our three coconut trees. She tells the gardener when to cut the ripe coconuts down, and monitors their...