Eat your curry leaves, so your hair can grow out strong and black. It’s your life goal as an Indian — you must have hair so strong you can lift with it and so black the night sky should envy you. Tomatoes keep cancer at...
It was a dream start to the decade as some of the highly anticipated releases such as superstar Rajinikanth’s Darbar, Mahesh Babu’s Sarileru Neekevvaru, Allu Arjun’s Ala Vaikuntapuramloo and Ajay Devgn’s Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior struck gold at the box-office. Despite mixed response from critics,...
We were to meet in the March of 2015, for the first time. I was excited, to say the least. This was the first time I felt attached without meeting the person in person; also, without video calls. Yeah! There was something very mesmerizing of...
1. What ensues being a good influencer in a city like Chennai? I think being a good influencer in any city starts with others referring to you as one instead of it being a tag on social media or how you refer to as yourself....
While Ustad Hotel and The Lunchbox have food as one of the main non-living characters, the Telugu film Pelli Choopulu (2016) uses the same theme in the capacity of a supporting character to guide its leading man towards his destiny. Whenever I think of food,...
There is a scene in Geetu Mohandas’ Moothon, where the two lovers, Akbar and Ameer, are in a pond, in the moonlight, discovering their love for each other. One of them is speech and hearing impaired but they communicate effortlessly, in one of the most...
In Mumbai’s up market Kamla Mills, lunchtime is the busiest. The young workforce from the business district descends upon the revamped mill that until not long ago had been in ruins. In the center of all the dining action is a sprawling restaurant, The Bombay...
From jewellery designing to acting, how did this transformation happen? Soon after I graduated in commerce, I took up jewellery designing because I wanted to be involved with something creative. In the meanwhile, I got involved in modeling and theatre. I then did professional modeling...
This quintessentially Bangalore bakery was revived last year by Priyank Sukanand, the great grandson of the owners of the original and famous Naidu Bakery in Shivajinagar, Bangalore. Reopened last year, from the same location in Shivajinagar, Bangalore Connection 1888 opened its first retail outlet last...
The year was 1997. Amrish Puri, the village jamindar, is sitting in an opulent verandah surrounded by eager villagers. While the scene from an iconic Bollywood film remains hazy, the aesthetics of the room in which Puri sat — ornate Burma teak doors, gilded windows,...
