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
BY ANDREW MOODY Each writer must submit to being judged by the truth and beauty of their own prose and nothing else. Earlier this week I popped into a Charity Shop near where I lived, and in a fit of whimsy bought the paperback of Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, which had won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway award, and the New Yorker … Continue reading Interpreter of Maladies
BY CSMI STAFF WRITER There are few classic cars that spring to mind when you think of India. One that is held in high regard is the Triumph Standard Herald. This 2-door saloon came into existence back in 1959 in Coventry, UK. Triumph had great success with the Herald in the market and the saloon can still be seen on the roads of the UK. … Continue reading Standard Herald
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
BY RIPAL PATEL In a new series of short and to-the-point economic bulletins, CSM India will be casting our eyes over key industries one by one. This week we are looking at the Indian fishing industry. How is the industry shaping up? What kind of state is it in for the moment and what are the opportunities for tomorrow? China was ranked as the number … Continue reading India’s Fishing Industry
Om Sahana Vavatu Saha Nau Bhunaktu Saha Viiryam Karavaavahai Tejasvi Nau Adhiitam Astu Maa Vidvissaavahai Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om, may the Divine protect both teacher and student. Let us be nourished and protected. May we work together with great energy. May our studies be effective. May we never hate or fight one another. Om Peace, Peace, Peace. Continue reading Om Sahana Vavatu
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
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
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
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
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