Deepa's Jottings
Filter coffee: it’s an experience…
Filter coffee is a defining character of Bengaluru. Seeing making of filter coffee itself is an experience. »
Leisure
Peacocks, Palaces and Pavements
Of poets, governors, gardens and solving city’s problems
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 »
Malleshwaram Matters
Rediscovering the lost passion through Malleshwaram Book Club
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 »
Deepa's Jottings
A visit to Veena Stores, Malleshwaram, Bangalore
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 »
Deepa's Jottings
How green is “green design”, really?
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 »
Deepa's Jottings
People on the pavement: The panipuri wallahs
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 »
Off Beat
The Me, My gadget, My video generation
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 »
Oorjana
Everybody has a story to tell: The Uber Driver
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 »
In Lighter Whine
Will you help me bring smiles to a thousand faces?
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 »
In Lighter Whine
Game theory
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 »