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Shylashri Shankar

Shylashri Shankar is the author of Turmeric Nation - A Passage Through India's Tastes

The Tastemaker’s Trend
A Moveable Feast
The Tastemaker’s Trend

Food novelty, like fashion, is a fickle creature

21 June 2017
And Then There Were None
Books
And Then There Were None

Four storytellers redeem the modern whodunnit by defying the familiar props of the genre

07 June 2017
The Genealogy of Taste
A Moveable Feast
The Genealogy of Taste

What the food habits of childhood can do to our life

24 May 2017
Arthur Conan Doyle
Books
Mysterious Minds

How Arthur Conan Doyle found the perfect scientific detective

26 April 2017
Hindus and Sacred Cows
Essay
Hindus and Sacred Cows: Recipe for Indentity Politics

Food as a tool of identitarian politics

20 April 2017
The Body Politics of Taste
A Moveable Feast
The Body Politics of Taste

What our ancestors ate continues to influence our palate

29 March 2017
Snapna Thirumanjanam, the bathing ritual at Tirumala on the first day of the spring festival
Books
God’s Kitchen: Celestial Palate

A report from God’s kitchen explains how Lord Venkateshwara is fed

22 March 2017
The Disputed Ancestry of Taste
A Moveable Feast
The Disputed Ancestry of Taste

Who will choose the winner in vegetables versus meat?

22 February 2017
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
A Moveable Feast
In the Garden of Earthly Delights

In pursuit of the perfect body and mind, we forget to feed the soul

18 January 2017
A Coffee Break in Tradition
A Moveable Feast
A Coffee Break in Tradition

A retro coffee house in Chennai as a cultural statement

14 December 2016

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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