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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Is Your Food Depressed?

Can love taste like a red velvet cupcake? Can pride taste like freshly baked bread at four in the morning?

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Time Farthest Out

One day, back when thick rimmed glasses hadn’t “come back”, quite simply because they hadn’t left yet, Dave Brubeck set out to look for his mojo.

American McGee's Alice

Exploring Wonderland

American McGee’s Alice infuses an air of freshness into a tale that is over a hundred years old.

Courting the Countryside

Newbie in Nuker

Himachali women are a refreshing change from those I have encountered in the northern plains of rural India.

Long Distance Love

The Long-distancewalla

Even in the age of the Internet, love is old-fashioned.

Do or Die?

People who swear by fancy-sounding diets would do better to promote the love of good food than make debatable claims.

Rasmai Ya Ramgarh?

Spending some time with a villager almost always assures one that change is the only constant we all look forward to.

Fire and Ice

If you are a cynical traveller, driven by the urge to seek something different, then Iceland provides just the right kind of kick.

Words for a Silent Space

Male Justice has marched on undaunted, and mutated into more potent and prurient forms.

Game On?

Expectations, they say, kill an idea. And after reading Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper, I agree vehemently.

A Bit of Jeeves and Wooster

Everyone has their own perfect Jeeves and Wooster, but I can’t see anyone other than Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in those roles.

Reporting Rape

That a woman is raped every few minutes in the country is more than just a statistic for us crime reporters. It is our bread and butter.