Tag: Bachi Karkaria blog
Strawberries and scholarship
<!--Uday Deb--> India and Iran converge again in Cambridge The temptation was strawberries, but I savoured learning’s creamy layer. In 1998, I’d interviewed Richard Blurton ... Read More
Coco-colonialism
<!--Uday Deb--> London is going nuts over ‘nariyal’ Oxford Street isn’t yet redolent with aromas of simmering aviyal, albeit close enough. Goodbye, Coca-colonialism’s. Hello, coco-colonialism. ... Read More
Water ways
<!--Uday Deb--> An exhibition to Thirst after Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both ... Read More
YourTube, MyTube
<!--Uday Deb--> Ticket to ride on the London Metro If Underground movements are your cuppa tea – or Matcha Latte – hop aboard. ‘Mind the ... Read More
We are the world
<!--Uday Deb--> And like that only everywhere If you want to feel homesick, don’t travel. Means, I’m not saying, ‘Why you want to travel? Simply ... Read More
Touch-me-not nation
<!--Uday Deb--> Freedom of repression is now fundamental right Only gums used to be sensitive. But people with this condition were unfortunate exceptions. Now it’s ... Read More
A Thursday
<!--Uday Deb--> So much more crashes along with a plane A dear friend perished in the Ahmedabad Indian Airlines plane crash of 1988; our domestic ... Read More
Hazy Angrezi
<!--Uday Deb--> It’s in the news but I’m confused Last weekend, TOI put me in a quandary. Saturday’s top edit was called ‘The Importance Of ... Read More
Persona non manga
<!--Uday Deb--> Held in terror by Don Alphonso and Salim Langda Pray heed the plight of the Person Who Doesn’t Like Mangos. Other minorities know ... Read More