Prateek Sadhu (Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint)

Have you heard of recipe matrices and remixes?

4 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Jahnabee Borah

On Dec 3, two restaurants from India were part of a global recipe switcheroo
As participants of the Grand Gelinaz! Shuffle Stay in Tour, Mumbai’s Masque and The Bombay Canteen reinterpreted dishes from Michelin-starred restaurants

Kartik Aaryan and Aparshakti Khurana in Pati Patni Aur Woh

Film review: Desultory adultery in 'Pati Patni Aur Woh'

2 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Uday Bhatia

In Mudassar Aziz's film, a married man falls for a young single woman
The best thing about 'Pati Patni Aur Woh' is Aziz's ear for comic dialogue

The sudden jump in the value of onions means a break in dietary routine. Bloomberg

Cult Friction

Opinion I Why I stopped taking onions for granted

6 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Sandip Roy

The recent onion crisis shows that money might lose its value, but food never does
The onion shortage has led to instances where onion was stolen but cashboxes were untouched

A priest, his son and a friend head home in the evening on an old Jawa motorcycle with a sidecar.

A Bengali among Parsis

1 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Uday Bhatia

Photographer Shantanu Das has been chronicling the Parsi community for several years now
In his work, one gets a glimpse of Parsi traditions, customs and everyday life

Three new books aim to capture the human face of the Sri Lankan conflict. (Alamy)

Ten years of tragedy in Sri Lanka

6 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Somak Ghoshal

A decade on since the end of the civil war, three new works of fiction revisit the troubled history of Sri Lanka
The graphic novel ‘Vanni’ explores the human cost of the war, while the other two are driven by strong characters

A still from ‘Frozen II’.

My Daughters' Mum

Frozen 2 shows us how to step into our power

5 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Natasha Badhwar

The feel-good idealism that is resting like a glow on the faces of our three daughters has been triggered by the release of Frozen 2
Our daughters were 10, 8 and 5 when they first watched Frozen and were gripped by the story of two sisters who are very different and yet bond so strongly with each other

The cast-iron ‘kyusu’ teapot is a versatile one. alamy

Tea Nanny

What's a million dollar teapot?

2 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Aravinda Anantharaman

One of the secrets to make a perfect cup of tea lies in choosing the right teapot
Some teapots gather value as they age and can be auctioned for a million bucks

Virat Kohli scored 136 against Bangladesh in November. (Photo: PTI)

Virat Kohli tops Test rankings

1 min read . 06 Dec 2019 PTI

Virat Kohli regained the top spot in ICC’s Test rankings following his 136 against Bangladesh in Kolkata
He displaced Australian batsman Steve Smith who slipped to second place in the latest rankings

Made of OLED glass panels with more plastic substrates, these foldable screens are designed and tested to withstand over 100,000 folds without getting damaged

How foldable smartphones are becoming more flexible

3 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Abhijit Ahaskar

From flip phone variants to massive displays, foldable screen smartphones are evolving and offering some fascinating results
Experts say these phones will have a shorter life cycle, but one can’t deny that they are making smartphones look cool again

Joe Pesci (left) and Robert De Niro in ‘The Irishman’.

Stream of Stories

‘The Irishman’: Martin Scorsese assembles his avengers

5 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Raja Sen

For his latest film, Scorsese adapts ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’, a book by Irish hitman Frank Sheeran
‘The Irishman’ breaks ground with a digital de-aging process, which Scorsese uses to twist mafia movie mythology

Jasmeen Patheja was recently awarded by the Zegna Foundation for her work on mobilizing women. (Photo: Arvind Rajan)

Cranky Customer

Opinion | How patriarchy inspires an artist

4 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Priya Ramani

Jasmeen Patheja of Blank Noise tackles patriarchy with confrontational and healing art
Patheja recently received the Zegna Foundation’s prestigious Visible award for her life’s work

A still from the 2015 movie ‘Bajirao Mastani’.

Medium Rare

Muslim sons of a Brahmin 'Peshwa'

4 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Manu S. Pillai

Peshwa Bajirao I’s love for the dancer Mastani resulted in Muslim sons being born into a Brahmin line
Ali Bahadur II was the last of the powerful princes of this family with a fascinating provenance

Manu Kumar Jain. (Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint)

Manu Kumar Jain: The smartphone man

7 min read . 06 Dec 2019 Shrabonti Bagchi

The country head of Xiaomi, the largest seller of smartphones in India, talks to Lounge about maintaining the lead in a crushingly competitive industry
Jain also talks about how he almost didn’t make it to IIT Delhi, and co-authoring a comic-strip with wife Minu

Technological ventures like Aadhaar are ultimately dependent on political patronage (Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint)

The political face of India’s technology journey

4 min read . 05 Dec 2019 Nandita Mathur

'Midnight's Machines' divides the journey of technology in India into four broad periods, starting from World War II to present day
It examines the role of key personalities—if Nehru was reluctant to promote private entrepreneurship, Modi sees it as vital to incubating technological advancement

Read this book for an engrossing journey through the history of English in India

How English became an Indian language

5 min read . 05 Dec 2019 Kavitha Rao

A writer travels across India to understand the vast and divisive subject of English spoken and written by Indians
The book is not an academic analysis of linguistics but a rollicking road trip, dotted with historical anecdotes and reminiscences

I Lost My Body is adapted from the book, Happy Hand.

A tale of broken hearts and body parts

1 min read . 04 Dec 2019 Pooja Singh

The French drama ‘I Lost My Body’, which follows the journey of a disembodied hand in search of its owner, is a dreamlike exploration of loneliness, isolation and belonging

CarveNiche’s Avneet Makkar (seated, centre) with her team at the Bengaluru office

Hitting refresh after a-team quits

6 min read . 04 Dec 2019 Rashmi Menon

Having a dedicated team in the early days helps a startup sail through all sorts of troubles, from funding to developing products. But what if the core team jumps ship?

Photo: iStock

Millennial Matters

For working partners, success lies in a psychological contract of sorts

3 min read . 04 Dec 2019 Utkarsh Amitabh

Conventional wisdom is that couples struggle to begin with and eventually figure things out

The story of what happens after a rape exposes the fault lines in the implementation of laws and in the working of our criminal justice system

India’s ‘rape culture’ and the issue of women’s safety

6 min read . 04 Dec 2019 Kalpana Sharma

An excerpt from journalist Kalpana Sharma’s book on violence against women exposes the fault lines in Indian society
Recent incidents have highlighted the dearth of laws in place to ensure women's safety in India

Anindya Dutta's 'Wizards: The Story Of Indian Spin Bowling'.

Stories of forgotten spin kings

4 min read . 04 Dec 2019 Nitin Sreedhar

Anindya Dutta’s book looks at the history of Indian spin bowling, including some of the names that never made it to the big time
Dutta goes back in time to narrate the remarkable story of the first great Indian spinner, Palwankar Baloo, born in Dharwad

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