The long, lazy Sunday morning read

One of the greatest pleasures of my Sunday is the waking up at the crack of dawn. Perhaps it is sheer perversity but knowing that I have nowhere to go, nothing to do induces a ceratin pleasure in lying in and reading.

Cheetah girls

Udaipur’s palaces have been gaining increasing traction in the Western media, whether it is via Madonna’s extended vacation there or Elizabeth Hurley’s grand wedding spectacle.

Of words on paper and prayers on one’s lips...

When we were growing up in Calcutta, we were fed on a diet of literature, which was almost always heavily loaded in favour of poetry.

Home stretch

Debbie Fifer’s family bought an elliptical machine so they would always be fit enough to hit the slopes - regardless of the weather or the season. But then this ski-loving clan struggled with where to put the bulky piece of equipment inside their Glenwood Springs home in western Colorado, US.

Spirited away

Nineteen years ago, when I first came to live in the Cantonment area of Bangalore, Thom’s Café was a little store on Wheeler Road which was part bakery, part grocery and part liquor store wreathed in shadows and middleclass-dom.

Can webzines substitute magazines?

After days of rafting, hooking worms for bait and shaking sand out of her skirts during a family trip to Oregon, Karen Snyder took a break.

India’s soft power

Every year I make the annual pilgrimage to Stanford University to what must unarguably be the finest repository of academia combined with key Indian policy-makers.

A date with the planet

When Mitch Thomson began searching on the Internet for a vacation rental this summer, he never imagined his stay at Kaweah Cottage, a two-bedroom retreat in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, would end up changing his family’s lifestyle.

Cracking the dress code

Dress codes are most often intimidating, if not irritating for most of us. When we receive an invitation that has a "dress code", it does send a nervous, discomforting sensation up the spine, that is, if you are the image-conscious kind.

Getting personal over paper

A client wanted a patent on the royal blue colour that Tina Deo and Anula Goenka had used for her very own stationary. But Deo just couldn’t give in.

Drop a line or two

You open your mailbox wearily, expecting bills to tumble out. But somewhere in the middle, a greeting card peers out.

Entrepreneurs aim high to dine in the air

High-end dining is rising to new heights. A local entrepreneur says he is launching the first United States branch of Dinner in the Sky, a Belgium-based company that offers above-ground dining events at lofty prices.

Virgin lands call

In the last five years, the roads have become even more non-existent. Where trees stood, little concrete boxes have mushroomed. Each one a little shop now

California bars use of trans fats

California, a national trendsetter in all matters edible, became the first state to ban trans fats in restaurants when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signeda bill to phase out their use.

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