The Shanghai Tea House by Brinda S Narayan
Mrs Rao was in awe of her cousin, Prema. Though it hadn’t always been that way. At one time, she used to think they were alike. Both small-town girls from Mandya, both educated only up to the Eighth Standard. Both married off early, Sheela Rao, when she was sixteen, Prema, when she was seventeen. Both meticulously trained in household tasks.
Six lessons from Einstein you can use in your worklife
In a marketplace that demands creative breakthroughs—the next start-up idea, a leading-edge product, a redesigned process—design-thinking interventions attempt to infuse businesses with the creative methods of designers.
The Three Princesses of Kashi’ by Shashi Deshpande, reviewed by Brinda S Narayan
Fortunately for Indian readers, many of our myths are being reinterpreted and retold by accomplished and brilliant writers. Among the more well-known reworks, Chitra Banerjee Divakurni’s The Palace of Illusions casts Draupadi in a new light, while Samhita Arni’s Sita’s Ramayana reminds us that the epic wasn’t just about Rama’s virtuousness and his forfeiture of the throne.
The Threshold’ by Jayant Kaikini, translated from Kannada by Pratibha Umashankar-Nadiger, reviewed by Brinda S Narayan
George Seurat, the founder of Pointillism, was a ‘shy, reclusive’ man who died at the young age of 31. In his Pointillist works, Seurat daubed tiny dots of color, one dot at a time. The eye in turn optically mixes the colors to create a sort of ‘luminous yet harmonious intensity’.