Old bottles, new wine
I recently contributed a column in Pitch on the role of mass media in building ecommerce brands. You can catch it here.
Backseat
Aditya Kripalani Judging by the date of publishing, this is probably the prequel to the school of writing (not genre, but language skills) that has one Mr.Tripathi as its patron saint now. The word skills are right up there – my favourite would have to be “help her bare the night” which, in the context of […]
Immaterialism
I was in Kochi recently, and was quite happy to find Uber there! About four years ago, a similar experience led me to write about how malls create a kind of homogeneity across cities. This is probably an advanced version of that thought, because I felt as though these were baby steps towards living in the cloud. […]
Gilly’s
First published in Bangalore Mirror I’d been hearing about Gilly’s for while now, and when I figured out that the crowd on Saturday nights would lead us to a Hoppipola-like experience, we decided to land up on a Saturday afternoon. Despite that, the place was reasonably packed and there was definitely a peppy vibe about the […]
Sons of Sita
Ashok K Banker The final book in Ashok Banker’s Ramayana series. It is also the concluding part of the Uttara Kaanda, and is set a decade after Rama banished Sita. Luv and Kush, her sons, grow up in the hermitage of Valmiki, and from the first page, set out, unwittingly, on a collision course with […]