Chahal for the Test Team?

BY BHINESH ANTHONY India currently possesses an abundance of skill in both fast bowling and spin bowling, which has helped them become one of the most powerful teams in the world in Test cricket in recent years. While Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav would almost certainly have been assured a position in the playing eleven of other Test-playing nations, they struggle to find a space … Continue reading Chahal for the Test Team?

Pav Bhaji

Ingredients For the bhaji 400g/14oz potatoes (peeled weight), any variety, chopped into small chunks 200g/7oz carrots (peeled weight), chopped into small chunks 150g/5½oz cauliflower florets, cut into small chunks 100g/3½oz peas 50ml/2fl oz sunflower oil 1 tsp cumin seeds 300g/10½oz red onions (peeled weight), finely chopped 5 large garlic cloves, finely chopped 15g/½oz fresh root ginger, peeled and grated 400g/14oz tomatoes, finely chopped 2–3 green chillies (bird’s eye or similar), chopped and seeds left in 1 tsp salt 1–2 tsp tamarind paste (diluted in 100ml/3½fl oz … Continue reading Pav Bhaji

Shilpa Gupta

BY CSMI STAFF WRITER Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) lives and works in Mumbai, India where she has studied sculpture at the Sir J. J. School of Fine Arts from 1992 to 1997. Shilpa Gupta’s work engages with the defining power of social and psychological borders on public life. Her work makes visible the aporias and incommensurabilities in the emerging national public sphere in India, which include gender … Continue reading Shilpa Gupta

Goan Coconut Rice with Ginger

Ingredients: 200ml Canned Coconut Milk 100g Desiccated Coconut 2 Tbsp Extra Virgin Rapeseed Oil 2 pieces of Cinnamon Stick (broken in half) 3-4 Black Peppercorns 2-3 Green Cardamom (light crushed) 2 Cloves (lightly crushed) 1-2 Small Onions 7.5m Fresh Root Ginger 2 Garlic cloves (peeled and finely chopped) 1 tsp Ground Turmeric 850ml Boiling Water 300g Tilda Long Grain Rice Fresh Coriander (chopped) 1-2 Tbsp … Continue reading Goan Coconut Rice with Ginger

A Family is for Life

BY JOE NUTT Like many people who read an essay by Honor Jones published someweeks ago in The Atlantic magazine, entitled How I Demolished my Life, I reacted badly. For anyone who missed it, the essay began with the author detailing her dissatisfaction with her current kitchen, before rapidly moving onto a description of the unending mess created by her three children, then devoted most of its 1,900 words … Continue reading A Family is for Life