Poulomi Paul

MY WORK IS INFLUENCED BY THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF MUSIC I LISTEN TO: 15-YEAR-OLD COMPOSER UTTKARSH MOHAN

February 13, 2021

NEW DELHI: Uttkarsh Mohan began playing the piano as a 7-year-old, taught himself how to use software for composing and producing music, and used the 2020 lockdown to come out with three albums. Uttkarsh Mohan, or Logical.UT, a ninth standard student from Shiv Nadar School, Noida, is a budding music composer...

AFTER WRITING THE BOOK, I HAVE CHANGED: AUTHOR BISWAJIT JHA

February 5, 2021

Karimul Hak is a tea plantation worker in north Bengal who has saved over 4,000 lives by ferrying sick people to the hospital on his motorbike, and earned himself the Padma Shri—and the loving moniker of ‘Bike Ambulance dada’—as part of this journey. In an interview for The Daily Guardian,...

A deep dive into the science of Indian cooking

January 22, 2021

Why is a teabag used while cooking chana masala? Why should tamarind be stored in a stainless-steel vessel instead of an aluminium one? How is frying onions related to the Maillard reaction? Krish Ashok answers these questions and more in his book, Masala Lab (Penguin), which intends to explain the...

What 2021 is bringing to our dinner tables

January 9, 2021

The New Year has brought with it a lot of hope as individuals and industries are starting to shake off the trauma of 2020. The food and beverages segment, one of the worst-hit by the pandemic, is pinning its hopes to people being able to jump back on the eating...

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

January 1, 2021

The year is 1933 and Karma is opening at London’s Marble Arch Pavilion cinema hall with four hundred people in attendance. Newspapers are raving about the film’s heroine, Devika Rani, and audiences are intrigued by the contradiction of her “virginal and traditional saree-clad looks” and her “sensual abandonment” as she...

A to Z of 2020: A glance at important events, people of the year through Alphabets

December 31, 2020

AYODHYA AYODHYA Nine months after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Ram Mandir in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, the bhoomi pujan for the temple took place on 5 August in Ayodhya. The grand ceremony, which saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying down a 40 kg silver brick...

DEMYSTIFYING THE CULT STATUS OF ROYAL ENFIELD

December 25, 2020

By now, the image—and more importantly, the sound—of a Bullet making its way through the rough terrain of the Himalayan belt is a part of India’s collective consciousness. But it took Royal Enfield quite a journey to reach this point as a trusted brand and the centre of a “cult”...

The two memoirs that are creating a lot of buzz

December 11, 2020

Literary portraits of two political giants from opposite ends of the globe have caught the attention of serious readers. The books in question are Joe Biden: American Dreamer, written by Evan Osnos, and Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India, by Shakti Sinha. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee rose to...

A DELUGE OF PANDEMIC-INSPIRED ART IS WAITING TO ARRIVE: UDAYAN MUKHERJEE

November 13, 2020

Journalist-turned-author Udayan Mukherjee’s Essential Items is a collection of short stories underscoring how the pandemic has affected every individual in the country—but in very different ways. In an interview with The Daily Guardian, Mukherjee speaks about what inspired him to write and how immersing himself in the project helped him...

SHORT STORIES ARE LIKE LITTLE RIVULETS FORMED AFTER HEAVY RAINS: SRI M

November 6, 2020

After writing bestsellers like Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master and On Meditation, spiritual teacher, educationist and Padma Bhushan awardee, Sri M has authored an eclectic mix of short stories, some of which have been collected in his new book, The Homecoming. The spiritual guru spoke to The Daily Guardian about...

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