The writer is a chef, author, educator and world traveller.

March 24, 2024 06:00 IST
Urvashi Kaur and her eponymous brand bring together a layered sense of community histories and indigenous practices
Fri, Mar 22, 2024
March 09, 2024 12:30 IST
From Operation Flood to online cooking classes, Amul has come a fair distance and in the process united farming communities to create lasting change
Sun, Mar 10, 2024
February 24, 2024 10:00 IST
If life in Delhi came with an abundance of love and opportunities, in Manhattan, I become a fuller and more complete version of me
Fri, Feb 23, 2024
January 28, 2024 06:10 IST
Can we protect from harm every being we share the planet with, especially those in our communities, both locally and nationally?
Thu, Jan 25, 2024
January 14, 2024 06:10 IST
Accolades and beauty come and go, but what makes us happy is staying true to ourselves
Sat, Jan 13, 2024
December 23, 2023 10:20 IST
Christmas is when we must rise above our divides and come together to plant seeds of change
Sun, Dec 24, 2023
December 16, 2023 17:25 IST
As I get ready to bid adieu to 2023 and start 2024, I wish to be a more mindful human being. When we live and love with purpose and give equality of value to the others, we find ourselves living and loving harmoniously
Sat, Dec 16, 2023
November 26, 2023 06:00 IST
There's a deep sense of gratitude for the lessons of accepting the bad as readily as the good and the ability to create when feeling broken
Sat, Nov 25, 2023
November 11, 2023 10:00 IST
It’s a time when we pause to appreciate the world at large and when we see everything we wish to cherish and preserve for ourselves and those who come after us
Sat, Nov 11, 2023
October 29, 2023 06:00 IST
Every day I remind myself of my childhood fears so that I can be gracious with those who are also defenseless
Mon, Oct 30, 2023
October 15, 2023 06:00 IST
I am what I am but what I hope never to be is a man too young to be smartly wise
Mon, Oct 16, 2023
October 01, 2023 06:00 IST
What will be, will be — this is the mantra that stares me in the face whenever I am confronted with dire circumstances
Sun, Oct 01, 2023
September 03, 2023 06:00 IST
Our age wasn’t what kept us together; it was our shared vision for our collective future
Sun, Sep 03, 2023
August 13, 2023 05:00 IST
This August 15, as we lead the world to empathetic ways of living, in our nation, freedom for one is freedom for all
Mon, Aug 14, 2023
July 23, 2023 05:54 IST
When we see our shared humanity as a link that unites us despite our individual variations, it is then that we see the world in its real splendour
Sun, Jul 23, 2023
July 09, 2023 06:10 IST
I was finally living a dream, doing something daring, out of the ordinary, what society might label too queer
Sun, Jul 09, 2023
June 25, 2023 06:10 IST
Love is a blessing and intimate love a devotion that frees us of fear and connects us to higher planes of being
Thu, Jun 22, 2023
June 04, 2023 06:10 IST
One can go from being broken to loving and living again, in the hope that love will find a way back
Thu, Jun 01, 2023
May 21, 2023 06:00 IST
Telling the India story through colour, décor, food, art and place
Sat, May 20, 2023
May 07, 2023 06:00 IST
How a trip to Haridwar presented a future of possibilities, where the ancient texts of India informed our sense of justice and inclusion.
Sat, May 06, 2023
April 16, 2023 07:00 IST
In Why Can’t Elephants be Red, the author Vani Tripathi and her daughter Akshara provide a route to inclusive living and a collegial way of being
Fri, Apr 14, 2023
March 26, 2023 06:00 IST
Mom taught me about the gravitas attached to truth and the hope that comes with white lies
Fri, Mar 24, 2023
March 12, 2023 06:10 IST
In Pakistan, friends welcomed me at celebrated tables, inspired me with daring sessions at the Lahore Literature Festival and regaled me with stories of the city
Fri, Mar 10, 2023
February 12, 2023 06:15 IST
We have the power to heal and inspire, and live with grace among those we think of as the other
Fri, Feb 10, 2023
January 29, 2023 06:00 IST
They encouraged us to experiment with what we learned and use that knowledge as an armour
Sun, Jan 29, 2023


