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

Bharti Kher

BY CSMI STAFF WRITER Bharti Kher was born in London, England, in 1969. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic from 1987 to 1988, and then attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newcastle Polytechnic from 1998 to 1991, receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art, Painting. She moved to India in 1993, where she lives and works today. The stick-on, ready-made bindi – a traditional Indian … Continue reading Bharti Kher

Super Quick

BY BHINESH ANTHONY Bowling consistently at speeds above 90mph in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), Umran Malik has become India’s newest fast bowling sensation. Malik is an out-and-out fast bowler forcing batsmen to face up to a 22-year-old rookie who hasn’t even played a full season of IPL yet, and has an economy rate – the average number of runs a bowler concedes per … Continue reading Super Quick

Poona’s Polo

BY AJAI SINGH Stationed in Bombay, where the Hussars would first land, was a native regiment with British officers, the Poona Light Horse. Most of the horse trading occurred in Bombay, and the Poona were thought to have the best ponies. In what Winston Churchill called an “audacious and colossal undertaking,” the 4th Hussars bought a complete polo stud of twenty-five horses from the Poona. … Continue reading Poona’s Polo

Chocolate Burfi

Ingredients: 3/4 cup Maida / all purpose flour 1/2 to 3/4 tbsp Cocoa powder 3/4 to 1 cup Sugar – (use more if you like it sweeter) 1/4 cup Ghee Instructions: Grease a tray with ghee and keep it ready. Heat ghee in a pan. Wait till the ghee melts and is sufficiently hot. Add the maida and cocoa powder in it. Stir well to combine everything together well. Saute the mixture for 4-5 minutes. … Continue reading Chocolate Burfi

Inhabiting the World with a Commitment to Justice

BY ARUNDHATI GHOSH Review 2: Karuna Banerjee’s An Actress in Her Time Everyone remembers Sarbajaya – the mother of Durga and Apu, the wife of Harihar – a central character in Satyajit Ray’s historic film Pather Panchali. However, few know anything more about Karuna Banerjee, the actor who became Sarbajaya for the screen, gaining international recognition overnight with her pitch-perfect performance of the role of … Continue reading Inhabiting the World with a Commitment to Justice

India Boils

BY CSMI STAFF WRITER India is getting too hot too early, raising the risk of fires, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Wednesday, as a heatwave gripped much of the country and a landfill site burned on the capital’s outskirts. “Temperatures are rising rapidly in the country, and rising much earlier than usual,” Modi told heads of India’s state governments in an online conference. The … Continue reading India Boils