First published in Bangalore Mirror. The original Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins after Tom Sawyer and Huck come into a fortune. In the modern day Bangalore retelling, an investment banker couple build a brick oven on the terrace of their parents’ house; the pizzas become a rage, the idea of a wood fired pizzeria is […]
BookMyTrainings.com connects end users and corporates to training programmes and e-learning modules. In conversation with co-founder L A BalaMurugan. [scribd id=82701785 key=key-2cs7xtnw866v8ii4stwy mode=list]
So it looks like Facebook will start releasing the Timeline feature to brands very soon. Though it is still unknown how this will turn out, there are already what-to pieces across the web. As a page admin, I’ve already given the brief for a cover photo. 🙂 It’s something I’m looking forward to, since, if […]
In Nayantara Sahgal’s “This Time of Morning” (review later), there is an episode (p 247- 250) where one of the characters recollects the first time he had seen the British’s Divide and Rule policy in action, in the context of religion. To summarise, towards the end of 1919, a Swami Satyanand, who had a reputation […]
Kiran Desai With two main narratives set in Kalimpong and New York, Kiran Desai’s second book is an excellent read which can be viewed from many prisms – the effect of a contact with the ‘west’ on a person used to his Indian-ness, the mess we make of our relationships, our inner conflicts, the way […]