Can wine be described well? for Mint Lounge
KRSMA Estates has invited me to a tasting of their wines next week, and frankly, I am a little nonplussed. Robert M. Parker, the influential American wine critic, once described a Haut-Brion as having “a sweet nose of creosote, asphalt…” and an array of berries. Having never tasted asphalt, and having no idea what a creosote is, this description is absolutely useless to me.
My book talk at the Indian Institute of Science
This Friday, September 4th at 4 PM. Copies of my [...]
Are you listening to the Kodaikanal rap?
The old woman in Palani—down the hill from Kodaikanal-- was trying to recruit me to be a movie extra. Muniamma looked like a rock star. She was about 80, with weathered skin about the colour of a coffee bean. She was clad in a soft white cotton sari sans blouse in the fashion of village women in Tamilnadu. Muniamma’s recruitment strategy was fool proof.
Videos to accompany Palani Hill & Kartikeya: Sacred Food: Mint on Sunday
My piece on Kartikeya, also called Skanda, was the cover story [...]
Radio New Zealand and Abdul Kalam
So they call from Christ Church on Skype on a [...]
The Art of Judgment: for Mint Lounge
My uncle Sivaramakrishnan called from Mumbai this morning stating that he wanted to “capture Twitter". Do you have good judgment? How do you teach it?
Buy my book
Just got my ten author copies of Katha yesterday. They [...]
Katha Review
Thank you Vijaya Pushkarna, for the generous review. I am [...]
For The National Abu Dhabi on London comedy
And I got to interview the legend: Keith Johnstone
Flora and Fauna in Sanskrit literature
For any nature-lover, this video interview with Naresh Keerthi, who [...]