Suman Tarafdar

Cold cuts

There are two aspects of Chef that are likely to strike the Indian reader of this novel?the evocative recreation of…

Fashionably yours

Store openings are usually glamourous affairs, when a select group of invitees indulge in wine and cheese as the evening…

Brilliant patchwork

To look at Leela Naidu?s legacy as one limited to cinema would be doing a disservice to a compelling life.…

Summer of pulp

Young Adult, commercial fiction, pulp fiction, whatever you want to call it, as long as you have aspirations to pen…

Fashion and the city

For those in thrall of western fashion, Halston is an almost reverential name. It?s creator, a contemporary of Calvin Klein…

Johny goes around

Drugs, money, sex, murder, organised crime, religion, investment banking, cyber space, exotic locations, from Brazil to Cambodia. Karan Bajaj?s latest…

New-found love

India is going green. Putting, driving, slicing, swinging?golf, for long on the peripheries of the Indian sporting and social life,…

On the edges

This isn?t the America fond Indian parents dream of for their sons. Nine short stories by Rahul Mehta, an American…

Rare fare

Moong ki dal ke shaami kebab, naqli omelette, keema samosas?with names such as these on the menu, you would not…

Second spring

We know our key customers. We not just know about them, but their interests, their favourite restaurants, when their son?s…

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