Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
How to preserve the story of your life?
The beauty of handwritten letters wasn’t just the momentous announcements they contained, but also the mundane things you forget — about how people lived then
He said, she said…the two sides of a marital fight
The war of words in a post-marital apocalypse... You keep asking for a divorce but is that really an option?
For Food 52 US on Persian bread
The royal tale of milky bread. In Bhopal, India
The wedding hashtag as challenged by Aunty Mona
The wedding hashtag as challenged by Aunty Mona. A hashtag is like a Hindu priest.
Should the parents of the bride and groom have control of their wedding?
Let's be clear: The grand wedding is not about the bride and groom, it’s about the parents who raised them to be ready for holy matrimony!
Tom Bihn travel carry on
Bottom line: This is a travel carry-on that doesn't cripple you on cobblestone streets
Parent trap: Passing on the hurt from your parents to your children
Of all the hurts that life doles out, it is the pain from the ones closest to us that stings.
Thank you, Vanity Fair….
And then there are the stories by writers-first-cooks-second that are just particularly well-illustrated through food. Shoba Narayan’s 2003 Monsoon Diary describes growing up in Madras, India and summering in Kerala on the South Indian coast before making her way to Mount Holyoke—she fell in love with such new delicacies as blue corn nachos and salsa, but stayed devoted to the food she grew up with, like yoghurt rice, her preferred late night dorm snack.
Nothing Personal about comments from Indian aunties: just give it back
The comments rush out like a tsunami, flattening young and fragile egos (Getty Images)
Strawberries on a train in India
What is it about train travel that evokes so much love and nostalgia amongst Indians?