August 2009 - Posts - Life etc...

August 2009 - Posts

Yucca and fistfights in the West Village

Posted by Elizabeth Eapen at 
Once the charms of Bed Bath & Beyond had waned (it held good for a couple of hours, I must admit, while I pondered, among other weighty matters, the relative merits of a bamboo chopping board and a silicone cake tin), my friend Anita and I made our way a couple of nights ago to Havana Alma de Cuba , on 194, Christopher St, in the funky West Village...

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Private building, public space

Posted by Himanshu Burte at 
The Levi Strauss & Company campus development, just off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, is a great example of how you can enhance the public space of a city when you put up a new building. The site of the development is the original Levi Strauss factory--yes, the birthplace of denim. The development is placed on two generous lots across a street...

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Meen molee in Manhattan

Posted by Elizabeth Eapen at 
Call it my piece de resistance . Or my comfort food. Or the one thing i can cook at (literally) a moment's notice and be sure of success. I'm always surprised when I hear of meen (fish) molee (fish in coconut gravy is a simple description, but read all the disclaimers below) talked of as being difficult to make... When you read my easy recipe...

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Too few sarees at the IPL... It's just not cricket!

Posted by Malavika R. Banerjee at 
Can a woman go watch an IPL game in a saree? Can she dress like that and sit in the Wankhede Stadium press box? The teams have uniforms, the cheerleaders are uniformly cheering. No surprise then, that uniformity has spread to the galleries as well. You could be a generous size 16, or somebody who has never really felt her best in the tee and jeans look...

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Multi-grain bread and Surf Excel for top loaders

Posted by Elizabeth Eapen at 
Architect and writer Gautam Bhatia's series of rants against our unplanned cities (read the 'City Centre' articles here ) concluded in Business of Life last month. A recurring grouse is that "in dimension, scale, numbers or aesthetics, what people want and what the city offers are opposing and often unmanageable compromises". While...

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The mysterious affair of the disappearing aitch

Posted by Papi Menon at 
America is a wonderful land. When I first landed on these shores, what struck me most was the purity of the colors everywhere. After the well worn, used up looks of the many Indian cities I'd lived in and traveled through, the shining aseptic primary colors of American cities seemed a wondrous thing to behold. Of course, with time, some of the wonder...

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Guess who's watching U/A movies?

Posted by Vandana Vasudevan at 
A couple of weeks ago I went to watch New York . At the interval, while I was contemplating whether John Abraham was really a terrorist and marvelling at how the director could make even Neil Nitin Mukesh act, I heard a noise which struck me as being odd in that setting. It was a bunch of kids about 8-10 years old, running down the aisle and pestering...

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