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 […]
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 […]
Take a bowl of an Author, add a spoonful of Classical Singer, then add a pinch of Jazz Musician, pour some Songwriter into that and finally sprinkle some Column Writer. Mix it, Shake it and then take it out. You have Radha Thomas, the multi-talented author of “Men on my Mind” and the lead singer […]
Monday, April 22, 2013. Asian Age / Deccan Chronicle “When I’m writing, I don’t read anyone else. And when I’m composing I won’t listen to anyone else either. I feel it may compromise me.” Radha Thomas has spent her life obsessing… about jazz. Writing. Men. Getting the most out of a toothpaste tube. Her son. […]
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 […]
I wouldn’t call myself a poet although I write words that rhyme. I’m a songwriter. I can hide behind the music. I can emote and stretch words, I can repeat for emphasis, create drama and generally make people forget the stupidity of producing melodramatic drivel like, Would I lie for you? Would I cry for […]
By Isha Sharma Get ready to jazz it up as this Bangalore-based band performs at a music festival in the city UNK: The Radha Thomas Ensemble, will be performing in the city tomorrow. Formed two and-a-half years back, the band features Matt Littlewood, from the UK, on the saxophone, Aman Mahajan on keyboards, Ramjee Chandran […]
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 […]
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