Photo credit: Sanjit Misra @sanjitmisraIndian cricket team’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the upcoming men’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia. Bumrah, who was earlier ruled out of the ongoing series against South Africa with a back injury, was under assessment at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. On Saturday, the Indian coach, Rahul...

 Long back, a senior colleague of mine told me how airports are where one can come across many stories. You keep your eyes and ears open to witness the many lives of the human beings around you, and one gets to imagine the lives they have lived and the stories that they are going to live. You don't...

Over the past twelve months, I have done 16 to 18 hours of fasting regularly. Today, I completed 36 hours of fasting. At first, the thought of doing something like that felt terribly challenging and weird. It was challenging because I couldn't fathom going one day without food; I felt my body couldn't take it, and I will...

For centuries, Bengali cuisine has been synonymous with fish and rice. Bengalis are the third largest ethnic group in the world after the Han Chinese and Arabs, a fact which still startle a lot of Bengalis. When people talk about Bengal, they usually mention the British colonial rule, the Howrah Bridge, the Durga Puja, Rabindranath Tagore and many...

On November 16, 2020, I lost my father’s sister, my Pishi. She was not just my Pishi. She was also my maternal grandmother’s sister-in-law. My father had three sisters. The youngest passed away many years ago. She was loved by all. I was barely 10 when she passed away. I don’t have many memories of her. The eldest sister passed...

Believe it or not, being single can be exasperating. More often than not, others (who are obviously not single) confuse it with being independent or confident or even being self-sufficient. Unfortunately, not all are the same. And sometimes, being single comes with its own set of downs and negatives — finding yourself alone in a room full of...

There is a popular saying, "don't judge a book by its cover." Probably I should have remembered that when I decided that rather than cooking my precious Katla fish which I had brought with me back from Calcutta, I decided to visit Fika restaurant in Chennai's cosmopolitan neighbourhood of Adyar. I had come across the restaurant by accident...