The 18th Brics summit will open in New Delhi on September 12 to 13. India holds the rotating chairmanship this year under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.” The gathering comes as Brics marks two decades since its members first sat down as a political grouping. It also comes at a moment…
On garlic confit, béchamel crimes, the Manchurian defence, and why I am declining my invitation to the future of food. I was recently offered a taste of the future, at lunch, in the office, and it came in a borosilicate ‘tiffin’ container. A dear friend and colleague had brought his wife’s cooking to work, as…
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. If you asked my mother to write the Vine, she could write every edition about my departures from normative behaviour during my childhood and adolescence. From my follicular adventures — which included a mohawk and the Salman Khan Tere Naam haircut — to not taking exams seriously, she has a…
There is a particular sound a brand makes when it folds. It is not a scream. It is the soft, laminated hum of a legal-and-comms note being read aloud by someone who has never in their life used the word “sentiments” in a sentence they meant. GIVA made that sound earlier this month. Its thirty-five-second…
There is something faintly absurd about launching a food newsletter in 2026, a year in which the average urban Indian already receives enough restaurant recommendations to sustain three parallel lives, most of them arriving via a stranger holding a phone six inches above a plate that has not yet been served, speaking about a meal…
Macaulay is primarily at the root of the rotting of our age-old, value-based traditional oriental educational system by the British colonial education framework since 1835. Added to this is the gradual degradation of our social values and sense of responsibility, wherein most of us, including those in authority, failed in civic duties towards preserving our…
A new documentary traces Paul Zacharia’s journey from a quiet village in Kottayam and the many worlds that shaped his singular literary imagination How do you translate a writer’s inner world to the screen in just an hour? A new documentary, ‘Zacharia’, on Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia attempts to answer that question by tracing the…
