Leisure Citizen Matters, Blogs

Filter coffee: it’s an experience…

January 29, 2018 Deepa Mohan

Filter coffee is a defining character of Bengaluru. Seeing making of filter coffee itself is an experience.

Of poets, governors, gardens and solving city’s problems

February 8, 2017 Pierre Chahine

After living in one of the most livable cities in the world – Melbourne – I became passionate about the cities’ phenomena. I have strived to discover more active ways to live in a the

Rediscovering the lost passion through Malleshwaram Book Club

January 2, 2017 Radhika Prasad

So what do you get when you have an eager reader with a ticking mind and time on her hands! – A Book Club! Reading has always been a pleasant diversion for me. In the

A visit to Veena Stores, Malleshwaram, Bangalore

December 17, 2016 Deepa Mohan

There are some eateries in Bangalore which have become quite renowned. Veena Stores is one such eatery…and I’d never visited in all the years that I have lived in this city I call home. So

How green is “green design”, really?

August 8, 2016 Deepa Mohan

Recently, at my monthly quiz meet, I was intrigued by this “green” container for chai, from Chai Point. The container seemed made of cardboard, an ecologically friendly material. But when I visited the website of

People on the pavement: The panipuri wallahs

July 4, 2016 Deepa Mohan

We often stop at one of the beautifully designed cane “stalls”, which can be packed up and carried around, and equally quickly set up somewhere on the roadside. Little puffed, fried balls of semolina, in

The Me, My gadget, My video generation

February 17, 2016 Shree D N

On a highway leading to a cold, cold city, a two-wheeler rider was mowed down by a speeding lorry on a hot morning. He pleaded for help, without even realising that his body was torn

Everybody has a story to tell: The Uber Driver

January 6, 2016 Thejaswi Udupa

Given the premise of this series—stories of city people you run into, neither friends nor strangers—a tale garnered from an Uber ride (usually going back home for the night, for no normal person will be

Will you help me bring smiles to a thousand faces?

December 28, 2015 Ritvik Mandyam

This week, I intend to have a stab at one of the most difficult tasks known to mankind: persuading an adult to part with a sum of money. Not a very large sum, but a

Game theory

November 19, 2015 Ritvik Mandyam

When you saw a teenager glued to a video game, did you think, “That kid is going to make seven million bucks!” That’s what people like Felix Kjellberg (PewDiePie) and Sean McLoughlin (Jacksepticeye) are making

Farewell Bengaluru! This is Holly Thorpe signing off…

September 11, 2015 Holly Thorpe

Hello, dear reader, with whom I’ve shared so much. If you’re reading this, it means the time has come for me to leave. Perhaps, as you’re rubbing your weary eyes and preparing for bed, I’m

Humble pie: An American palate adjusts to food culture in India

August 24, 2015 Holly Thorpe

Recently I went on a food walk with Bengaluru’s Unhurried walk and tour company. The three-hour walk led me through the charming streets of Basavanagudi and into some fabulous eateries. At the handful of small

Potty training in Bengaluru

August 4, 2015 Holly Thorpe

Dear reader, who I may know well or not at all, you are going to get to know all sorts of strange things about me. Let’s be forward with each other, shall we? Today, for instance,

The dissonance in my gut: When ideas of skin colour and identity are challenged abroad

July 24, 2015 Holly Thorpe

In the United States, I’m never really forced to think about the colour of my skin. I suspect very few white, middle-class girls are, although I may be wrong there. This is a privilege, a

Charging foreigners more for tickets: A jab on a tourist’s face?

July 11, 2015 Holly Thorpe

I was standing in awe of a temple carved out of stone, the colour of a sunset in a place in North Karnataka, when my travelling companion approached me. She’d been speaking with the man