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Do I like Bangalore? Hmmm, I have to think about that one. I used to love it. Especially, when I first arrived here about twenty years ago, even though I didn’t know a soul. Everyone was friendly and warm and the streets were empty and cool. I remember getting lost in Malleswaram (where my family […]
To tell you the truth, I have no idea how my son Stefan is still alive and breathing. I remember wailing hysterically at the nurses in the hospital as soon as he was born, because he wouldn’t eat. “Relax,” they told me calmly. “Give him a moment. Babies know what to do.” It was pure […]
I look forward to Sundays. Not only because I can sleep in and wander around in my tatty nightclothes all day long because there are no maids, no drivers, no visitors, nobody around to judge me, but also because it’s our day to go out to dinner. We’re not adventurous though, when it comes to […]
Like many people in Bangalore who love cricket, yesterday, April 23, was a day that I will never forget. I wasn’t at the stadium because I don’t like crowds. But I do love my living room. With the HDTV and the rewind and the room service. I joyously watched Chris Gayle play such an amazing […]
There’s a big shortage of whey protein power in Bangalore. You know, the stuff we muscle-bound, body-building types need every day. GNCs, gyms, stores seem to be fresh out. Everyone’s working out, it looks like. But our driver Manju is a clever chap and he’s made friends with a guy who knows someone […]
So I decided to write a song. Another one. This time what moved me wasn’t the backbeat, or complex chord harmonies. It was the sizzle and smell of a dosai. That oily, artery-clogging, carb-filled, nutritionally-challenged, pure veggie mouthful of heaven that is served up at breakfast time in many South Indian homes, so their little children can […]
Black and white in Bangalore A couple of days ago, Naresh Fernandes, tireless researcher, journalist and author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot (a book that looks back in time at the jazz scene in India) posted a beautiful piece of music in the newly formed online group, ‘JazzInBangalore’ on what else, Facebook. “Group’ used to be […]
Asian Age, Sunday Feb 10, 2012 Review of Vikas Swaroop’s ‘Accidental Apprentice’ Radha Thomas By Vikas Swarup Rs. 350 Injustice. Redemption. Evil. Good. Right. Wrong. Wretchedness. Chance. Good fortune. Much like the saga of the luckless Jamal Malik in the superhit phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire, based on the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup, […]
Feb 2013, Men’s Health Magazine, The Sex Issue I come from a part of the country (Tamil Nadu) where names like Ramalingam, Shivalingam, Amrutalingam and Mahalingam are proudly given to little boys, unmindful of where they may end up later in life, say for instance at Yale, in a class filled with sniggering freshmen, […]
You may not see Daisy (the Princess of Milton Street) poking around the park as much as you once did. Or sniffing the streets for that matter. Things are looking up for our velvety-smooth, black, brown and white doggie with the beautiful eyes. Why, you wonder? Have her mommy and daddy moved? Near some […]
Radha Thomas 