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Bringing Zen Home

New Indian Express3d ago

It started with a lotus leaf in the Puris’ living room. When Daizy Lal Puri and Jasmer Puri brought home a hand-painted lotus leaf artwork this year, they were surprised they had brought calm home...

The Things We Preserve

New Indian Express3d ago

I wanted to write historical fiction somewhat outside of the genre,” says poet Rebecca Perry. In her Booker-shortlisted debut novel, May We Feed the King, she does exactly that, favouring specific...

Wedding Wows

New Indian Express3d ago

Indian wedding couture has long been synonymous with the lehenga-choli; the latest bridal trend now challenging that formula with a sharper proposition: the statement jacket.

The Children We Raise

New Indian Express3d ago

Most of us are familiar with what is loosely called the ‘Generation Gap’, wherein the old and the young fail to understand each other because they have different experiences, habits and...

Child’s Play

New Indian Express3d ago

For generations of Indian children, play meant cricket in the back lane, village football in the fields, cycling around the neighbourhood until the streetlights came on; a board game with cousins...

Conan Doyle Meets Christie

New Indian Express3d ago

There is something almost reassuringly old-fashioned about The Final Problem. In an age when murder mysteries increasingly arrive wrapped in psychological trauma, unreliable narrators and elaborate...

Devotion is Love

New Indian Express3d ago

Some people think that they can do any kind of inferior acts and later go to a tirtha (holy place), perform some prescribed ceremonies, and all their sins will be forgiven. This is a misconception.

Where Stories Take Root

New Indian Express3d ago

The names had taken root long before the trees did. Mani maruthu, Mandharam, Ilanji, Kodappana—were words celebrity author and sreenwriter Anand Neelakantan first encountered in Malayalam songs...