The Pandemic Struck World
BY DRISHTI RAKHRA I made a new friend recently. We met through a mutual friend from Delhi and realised that we had much in common, with both of us being students of literature and big fans of poetry. We decided to meet for the first time in late December, in Bangalore’s latest popular watering hole, Bob’s Bar. We sat for hours and spoke to each … Continue reading The Pandemic Struck World
To The Readers
Dear CSM India Readers/Friends, Hope the first month of the year 2022 is treating you well and all staying safe and healthy. The New Year greetings for the past couple of years have assumed such an eerie haunted touch that most of us await with bated breath and crossed fingers praying for a break from the agonizingly routine surges in the Covid cases and tragic … Continue reading To The Readers
Bus Bas
BY VIBHA MITRA I was inching forward at the crossing of Lansdowne Road and Lansdowne Terrace, opposite Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, when boom a bus coming down at breakneck speed crashed into my left side and zoomed ahead regardless. The police on duty and bystanders rushed ahead and stopped the bus to reprimand him. Concerned that it could have been worse and I looked rattled. No … Continue reading Bus Bas
Ajwain Bread Crunch
Ingredients Bread: 5 slices Gram flour: 2 tbsp Cumin powder: half tsp Chilli powder: 1tsp Ajwain/ Carom seeds: half tsp Chopped coriander: 1 tbsp Baking soda: A pinch Salt to taste Method STEP 1 In a bowl, to a cup of warm water, add all the ingredients to prepare the batter of thick consistency. STEP 2 On a frying pan, roast the bread with ghee … Continue reading Ajwain Bread Crunch
Farewell Madame
BY DR KAUSTAV BHATTACHARYYA FAREWELL MADAME MARIA AURORA COUTO: PERSONAL TRIBUTE FROM A YOUNG ADMIRER … An article arrived in my smartphone newsfeed on Ms. Maria Aurora Couto and there was an instant excitement at the prospect of sharing it with her on WhatsApp, which I had done in the past until I read those devastating words ‘passed away’. At which point the excitement turned … Continue reading Farewell Madame
A Chant for Difficult Times
It is said that the chant “Mookam karoti vaachaalamPangum langhayatey girimYatkripaa tamaham vandeyParamaananda Maadhavam” Can make the cripple climb mountains and the mute speak eloquently. The mantra asks for grace in order to ease someone out of difficult situations. It means: “I salute that Madhava,The source of Supreme Bliss,Whose grace makes the dumb man eloquentAnd the cripple cross mountains.” Continue reading A Chant for Difficult Times
Remembering Bangalore From Februaries Past
BY DRISHTI RAKHRA Telling someone that I’m from Bangalore is never easy. The statement of belonging always appears with a little bit of shame. My memory of Bangalore is not steeped in the sharp twists and turns of Kannada, it is not heavy with the experiences of going to landmarks like Lalbagh on weekends or eating breakfast at one of the many efficient darshinis of … Continue reading Remembering Bangalore From Februaries Past
“Hey Daddy!”
BY JOYA LALL “Hey Daddy! When are you coming home?”- the first line that comes to mind when thinking of both my older brother Dev and myself, as infants unable to understand why ‘Daddy’ was constantly away for so long! ‘This ‘Daddy’ was one of India’s then tennis representatives, constantly travelling both nationally and worldwide. According to Google, this ‘Daddy’ was in ‘the Indian ‘Davis … Continue reading “Hey Daddy!”
Global Britain Centre Launches
On the eve of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, India’s foremost authority on geopolitics urged the United Kingdom to play a more assertive role in the Indo-Pacific to counter China’s dangerous “authoritarian capitalism”. The excellent Global Britain Centre held its launch reception at the Carlton Club in London on Tuesday 1 February. Amandeep Singh Bhogal and Lewis Feilder have created the new venture to … Continue reading Global Britain Centre Launches
An Anglophile’s Nostalgia
BY RUCHIRA GHOSH I was born twenty years after India, my motherland, attained independence from British Colonial rule. Nevertheless the impact of approximately two hundred plus years’ regime and socio-cultural interaction was so deep rooted that it took many more years to gradually lessen the impact. In a personal vein, I was born during this period of transition and turmoil; and now more than fifty years later what remains … Continue reading An Anglophile’s Nostalgia
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