بسیاری را در این چند ماه گذشته با این بیماری همه گیر نقطه روشن تاریک از این به اصطلاح براق, درخشان صنعت...
تصویر/Uday Mohite
من اعتراف احساسات من به یک دوست خوب چند وقت پیش و از آن شده است بیش از پنج ماه اما او داده نشده است من یک پاسخ قطعی شده است. او می گوید: او نمی داند که آیا او می خواهد هر چیزی جدی است. ما هنوز هم قطع و اغلب صحبت کنید. من باید فشار خود را برای پاسخ و یا فقط رفتن با جریان ؟ من اشتباه. من هم می دانم آن را سخت خواهد بود برای ماندن با دوستان خود را اگر او به من تبدیل کردن...
Sonia Shah
On about 3.6 per cent of the planet’s surface, geographic barriers prevent wild species from migrating as effectively as the desert borderlands barred the polo-shirted young man. Take, for example, the mosaic-tailed rat, which lived on tiny Bramble Cay, an uninhabited island on the northern edge of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. Increasingly violent storm surges steadily wiped out the island’s plant life...
When freedom is unrestrained and consent is not respected, trouble inevitably follows, says writer-journalist Jyotsna Mohan Bhargava, in the introduction of her new book, Stoned, Shamed, Depressed: An Explosive Account of the Secret Lives of India’s Teens (HarperCollins India).
Bhargava’s book comes close on the heels of the Bois Locker Room case that made headlines in May this year...
The beer arrived with a complimentary packet of peanuts and facemask
When the pandemic forced the state government to allow sale of liquor via home delivery only, a veteran in the alco-bev industry confessed, “The pandemic has done what the industry has been lobbying for years. Finally, a landmark order, even if it is till the lockdown lasts.”
The lockdown has led many enterprising masterminds to huddle, reshuffle, and create new business ideas...
Sapna Bhavnani’s Bandra salon, “home” for years to a staff of 11, was dismantled on July 28 after she realised she had run out of means to pay salaries and rent post lockdown. Pics/ Shadab Khan
When I was distributing relief packages to migrant workers at the beginning of the lockdown, I didn’t realise that I would be affected by the pandemic, too,” says Sapna Bhavnani, “But we are just a mom-and-pop shop like Altaf bhai two blocks down who makes cushion covers...
You play a secret agent akin to James Bond, who needs to put an end to the evil organisation known as the CLAW. Each mission is a long car chase, where you have to use your superior driving skills and tricked-out car to take down the enemy, both on land and in the water. Don’t worry, your car turns into a speed boat when it goes into the water. The game is a lot of fun and comes with awesome chase music, ideal for the situation you are in.
Video: https://youtu.be/87tJ9eswwOE
Nineties cartoon-themed Spiders...
Simon Quinn, a 32-year-old PhD student from Australia, has been studying Sanskrit in India since 2017
With a one-way ticket in hand, Australian couple Chloe Dimopoulos and Ben Munro arrived in India on March 12, hoping to travel the country, and then the world. When the recent graduates reached Jaipur, Chloe was overcome by a fever, bodyache and chills. On March 16, they were in a public hospital trying to get a COVID-19 test...
Audience seen during the inaugural day of Zee Jaipur Literature Festival, at Hotel Diggi Palace in Jaipur this year. Pic/ Getty images
A week from now, on August 9, the Bengaluru Poetry Festival will open its doors to lovers of verse, albeit in a “new metre and with a different composition”. Shinie Antony, festival director, in a first, has dared to take the event online. This was not part of the plan, at least not until a few months ago.
Like every year, work for the festival, whi...
Pork in axone with bamboo shoots and bhut jolokia is one of the highest selling dishes at chef Alistair Lethorn’s pop-ups
In the opening sequence of Axone, a film by Nicholas Kharkongor currently streaming on Netflix, Upasana (Sayani Gupta), Chanbi (Lin Laishram) and Zorem (Tenzin Dalha) smuggle axone, a fermented soya bean paste into a room on the terrace...