From their delectable menu options to the way the chosen dishes are served, all of it is quite impressive. The fairly recent addition on the ever growing home chef horizon, The Oudh Table as the name suggests has Lucknowi cuisine as its USP and they remain true to that from their weekend menu items to…
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Valmiki’s Women- Five Tales From The Ramayana | Anand Neelakantan
This is the second book I came across narrating the stories that make the cherished epic called Ramayan which is authored by Anand Neelakantan. Like the earlier book, depicting the details of Ravana’s life, this too successfully manages to capture readers’ attention from the word go. Here the author is specifically talking about the five…
Men Explain Things To Me And Other Essays | Rebecca Solnit
Men explain things to me begins with the author narrating an everyday, mundane experience. This anecdote might feel like shocking from a man’s perspective but yeah as women, we are very much used to such “mansplaining”. Although, the author categorically mentions that her brilliantly written essay has given birth to this term, but she would…
From Words To Views |Ray
Satyajit Ray was not only a film maker par excellence but also scriptwriter, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher and music composer. So, it’s not surprising that so many creative minds try to adapt or inspire from his vast body of work. That includes his contemporaries as well as the new age creators who…
Less | Andrew Sean Greer
Arthur Less wants nothing but an adventure to get over life, love and loss of both- life & love. And how is he going to do that, well with the help of his ingenious plan to have a trip around the world- new sites, new people, new purposes to look forward to one’s days once…
Caste | Isabel Wilkerson
There is a saying in Marathi which roughly translates into English as, Caste is something you can not cast away. We see numerous examples of this in today’s day and age too, well into the second decade of the 21st century. As Isabel Wilkerson points out in this phenomenal book, this social issue has impacted…
सानिया लिखित ओमियागे
सानिया यांच्या कथेतील स्त्रिया ह्या बहुतेक एका विशिष्ट सामाजिक-आर्थिक वर्गातून आलेल्या दिसतात. स्वतंत्र विचारसरणी, व्यवस्थित किंवा उच्च शैक्षणिक पार्शवभूमी आणि स्वतःचे निर्णय घेण्याची मानसिक कुवत असण्याऱ्या स्त्रिया त्यांच्या कथेमध्ये मध्यवर्ती असतात. बहुधा शहरी किंवा निमशहरी भागातील या स्त्रिया एका ठराविक विचारसरणीनुसार त्यांचं आयुष्य व्यतित करणं उचित समजतात. ओमियागे या दीर्घ कथासंग्रहामधील अनिता, सुजाता, सरिता, श्यामल…
महाश्वेता देवी लिखित जटायु
महाश्वेता देवी या त्यांच्या लेखनाच्या अनोख्या शैलीमुळे आणि मुख्यतः ग्रामीण पार्श्वभूमी असण्याऱ्या कथावस्तूंमुळे चिरपरिचित आहेत. त्यांच्या कथा ह्या बहुत करून पूर्वोत्तर राज्यांमध्ये घडतात आणि उपेक्षित, शोषित लोकांच्या व्यथांची गडद छाया त्यांवर पडलेली दिसून येते. उपरोल्लिखित कादंबरी जरी कलकत्ता आणि आसपास घडत असली तरीही कथेच्या पूर्वपीठिकेमध्ये डोकावण्याऱ्या गावांची, वनांची त्यावर दाट सावली आहे. हि कथा घडते…
Christmas At Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve
Same time, two years ago we spent our Christmas holidays in some majestic company. We travelled to Bandhavgarh National Park renowned being the foremost tiger reserve with high concentration of big cats. Although not our first time on a jungle safari, but it was indeed in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. So, as it’s well known…
From Words to Views |A Suitable Boy
How you write about the most famous Indian novel of our times? How you build a screenplay out of such massive book? Well, to answer the first question; I’m not here to write a book review of A Suitable Boy. I am here to talk about the screen adaptation of this important literary milestone. As…
The Illicit Happiness of Other People | Manu Joseph
Why Unni did what he did? This question is at the heart of Manu Joseph’s Chacko family tale titled The Illicit Happiness of Other People. It traces lives of Chacko family members- the downward spiralling father Ousep, disturbed Mother Mariamma and perplexed teenage brother Toma. True to his journalistic work and using the trick of…
Discovering Charms of Uttarakhand With My Mother
“I understand that they have came here to learn Yoga and Indian Spirituality; but besides that what they exactly do? Rest of the day or remaining of their stay? How about the cost of living, earning etc. how do they manage?”She was so full of questions, perplexed looking around at all these ashrams and their…
Belinda | Anant Samant
अनंत सामंत यांच्या कथा आणि कादंबऱ्या त्यांच्या अतिशय वेगळ्या अशा दर्यावर्दी भवतालामुळे, त्यातील खलाशी आणि देशोदेशीच्या नानाविध लोकांच्या कहाण्या मांडण्यामुळे अतिशय प्रसिद्ध आहेत. त्यांच्या ह्या वेगळेपणामुळे त्यांचा असा खास वाचकवर्ग आहे. बेलिंदा ही शीर्षकथा आणि इतर लघुकथा असलेला हा कथासंग्रह देखील आपली निराशा करत नाही. ह्यामधील बेलिंदा आणि ती ही कथा हि समुद्राच्या, जहाजच्या प्रवासात…
Winter Memories
Here’s the photo which I clicked few years back on my travels to the princely state of Rajasthan. These are elephant rides going up to the majestic and magnificent fort called Amer. Reaching the fort in such a fashion is an exquisite experience, offering the tourists to feel like the Maharajas for few minutes at…