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Cafes and the city
I’m writing this blog as I’m sitting at a café. Cafés have character and this has one. This isn’t a big name-brand café but a very successful one. It’s in SoHo right in the heart of Manhattan’s...
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Telling Stories (Part 2: The Arrangements)
Continued from: Telling Stories:(Part 1: The Confusions) The little blind lane on which my parents’ flat is located in Calcutta is very narrow but by no means sleepy. As you pass by the other flats you...
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Possessing books
I went to listen to a talk at the New School in Manhattan yesterday. But this post is not about that talk. It’s about something incidental I spotted in our aimless wanderings preceding the event. It’s...
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What gifts to buy in a global culture?
I’ve been looking for gifts for the past few days for my impending visit to India from New York. And I’ve been looking in vain. Last year I bought some bottles of perfume with people’s names on them...
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Global Indians: Distance and the World
When I was a child in Calcutta in the late 80′s and early 90′s, we didn’t have the internet. When we wanted to see the world, we looked at a big globe which belonged to my brother. We would twirl it...
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Bottledworder is back
The Delhi International terminal was amazing. The long trip to Calcutta is over and I am back in New York. It’s difficult to believe that one can be in the midst of the scorching heat of the sun one...
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When clothes travel
The new clothes I brought over from India last week, like many of the other times I travelled, are sitting on a shelf, carefully folded. So did my embroidered sandals sit in their boxes for the entire...
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Magic spaces in a globalized world
The sky lit up with a million iridescent fragments last night lighting up the dark surface of the Hudson and the hundreds of boats that had gathered there to watch the July 4th fireworks in reddish,...
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My Durga
Thursday had dawned like any other Thursday with the beep-beep alarm going off on the cell phone. A sickly dawn spread across the dark sky outside and the city paled across the river preparing for...
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Street Food: Calcutta Durga Puja–Shoshthi Shaptami 2014!
If you’ve lived in one of the great Indian mega-cities for any length of time, one of the things that you can never forget is the street food. But street food during a festival like Durga Pujo? You...
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