As soon as I met Aryama Sen on a Zoom call, I was surprised. As a follower of her Instagram account, @ind.igenous, where she deliberately maintains anonymity, I was expecting someone older.
Staying Distinct on Social Media
Before delving into Aryama’s story,
Shanthamani Muddaiah is a highly-regarded, Bangalore-based artist whose works feature in local, national and international collections. Her creations are showcased by a range of collectors, including but not limited to Swiss Re (Bangalore), RMZ (Bangalore),
Deepa Purushothaman was elated. She had recently made it to partner at Deloitte, a global professional services firm. And she was celebrating with Walter, a friend from graduate school who had been similarly elevated at his law firm.
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One of the fallouts of the pandemic originating in Wuhan, China has been an unfortunate spike in anti-Asian crimes in the UK, US and in other parts of the world. As Angela Hui notes in Takeaway,
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For those with a keen sense of smell, Chianti, a red wine hailing from Tuscany, evokes a distinct aroma in Bangalore. Smells are said to be more intimately connected to memories than other sensory experiences;
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Couples fall in love for mysterious, ineffable reasons. We often hear that awkwardly suspended phrase – “What does she see in –?” or “How could they –?”, the pauses flashing with surprise and disapproval. But if the reasons for coupledom are hard to fathom,
This, to borrow a word from the title, is a gorgeous book. Gorgeous in the way Vuong’s words take flight, leaping from the light-filled memories of a child reading an ESL (English as a Second Language) storybook titled Thunder Cake to shockingly dark,
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On Chapel Sands was a book buried in my Kindle, bought soon after it came out, but lost among the digital detritus that clog my devices. Recently, while combing through an ever-mushrooming to-read list,
Having encountered a few of John Donne’s poems in high school – “Death be not proud” and “No Man is An Island” – I was recently tugged in by a YouTube conversation with a contemporary biographer.
A Thrilling Start To An Academic Life
As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s, Zena Hitz had always loved reading. As did her older brother, and parents, with the family often engaging in fierce literary feuds that sparked off her lifelong zeal for learning.
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While our country has a colossal and overwhelmingly influential film industry, there is a surprising dearth of writers who turn a nuanced eye to the making of these films. Jai Arjun Singh, who also writes for The Mint,
At 50, Neeraj Sagar made a bold decision to quit his highly-regarded position as a Senior Partner at Egon Zehnder and strike out on his own. The driving force behind his new venture, WisdomCircle, is the belief that older generations have much to offer and should not be disregarded due to ageist biases.
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What Malls Might Signify in India
To those of us who grew up in Indian cities in the 60s, 70s, 80s or even 90s, shopping malls were unfamiliar spaces. Since then, there are perhaps few other spaces that are as ubiquitous,
For all who have taken to playing chess since The Queen’s Gambit. Or have reassessed their flippant dismissal of the aspirations that abide in Kamathipura since Gangubai Kathiawadi. Or to those who wonder about the historical forces that have led to far fewer female comedians since The Marvelous Mrs.
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When I stumbled on Ishani Roy’s profile on LinkedIn, I was fascinated for many reasons. For one thing, she had transited from a deep STEM career to a thorny human behavioural domain. After all, Roy had been passionate about Applied Mathematics,
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I must acknowledge straightaway that I was bowled over by this book. As someone who likes to describe myself as “curious”, I thought I knew what curiosity meant. And more significantly, what it felt like.
Richard Reeves needed courage of a sort to write this book. After all, in an age where women’s issues are often accented – the wage gaps, their inadequate presence in senior leadership roles or on Corporate Boards,
Remember Gone With the Wind?
Many Boomers and Gen Xers might recall watching Gone With the Wind. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler exuded a slick charm that epitomized the dark,
Philippe Gluckman, who has been the Creative Director for Dreamworks in India and the Visual Effects Supervisor for iconic hits like Shrek and Madagascar, offers invigorating lessons for those who want to break into animation or forge successful careers in a creative field.
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Have you ever wandered inside a zoo and wondered about animal talk? Do monkeys chatter with each other? What about birds, who according to recent research, are much smarter than we imagine? Better still, what if those creatures can talk to us?
Brinda S. Narayan
