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I had a draft of this post ready a few days ago, and then saw that The New Yorker published a piece called Astrology In The Age of Uncertainty. It’s a bit of a fence-sitter, but with good reporting, so here are bits I liked from it, as a preface to what I had written.…
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I love cabbage. It’s not a popular vegetable, or at least I think it isn’t. Mostly you encounter it in a slaw of some sort. Many Indian restaurants will mix raw onions and cabbage and send that out as a side. Khane Khas, one of my eternal favourite restaurants in Bandra, does that, and I…
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For more than a decade now, I’ve helped people write. Magazine stories. Instagram captions. Blog posts. Newsletters. Books. And more books. As an editor, your day job is in the business of other people’s communication – you spend all your time understanding their thoughts, feelings and experiences, and then translating them into text. Or, content,…
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Fashion is about allowing you to be someone you think you can be. It gives you so many more tools. I never understood why people consider it such an imposition on their lives. It should be a pleasurable thing to do. – Sally Singer, from here I’ve always felt like an outside observer (in a good…
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I recently re-read Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin. I’d read it some years ago, when Luisa Weiss mentioned it on her excellent blog. It is a simple book filled with stories and recipes – a food memoir of sorts, I suppose but while this genre is very common now, it…
Chinmayee Manjunath 