How do Asian comics portray single women in their 30s?

There are three friends, women (29), who were friends right from their high school. They are at different stages of life, more or less. Let us name them Akira, Baka and Caito Akira has never been able to get a permanent job and the boyfriend she has been dating for four years is not looking…

Traversing European streets in December

I have always loved Christmas. Of course most of this love in part stems from the amazing consumerism the Hollywood movies helped instill in most of us. But, having actually experienced it first hand, in London and most recently in Belgium, the “Christmas-y” feel is pretty much real and I love it.  It is amazing…

From pazhampori to pisang goreng, how the world consumes fried bananas

This post was long pending, at least by two years. That was how long since I had left New Delhi to take a new job in Bengaluru. Now, this post is not a rant about my Delhi times, which will come later, but about this banana dish that I had there when I had gone…