PlainGeets

  • Nesting in Bangalore

    “Petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid.” (The bird makes its nest, step by step. In other words, Rome wasn’t built in a day.) I love this French proverb for its poetry and for being so much more “real” than it’s English counterpart. I couldn’t care less about Rome, but…

  • Book Review : Toast

    I used to be a waif-like girl with no particular interest in food, even though gourmands and amateur chefs surrounded me. Then I went to France…and then I took up a sedentary job profile for a year, which gave me time to think about my meals and start widening my…

  • Bonjour India : Visualising Music with Puce Muse

    From the moment I heard about Puce Muse and their multimedia concert, I knew that this was not an event to be missed. Visuals projected on the façade of a historical edifice accompanied by music – the description alone was enough to make me block the evening a month in…

  • J’aime le français : bilan d’une expérience enrichissante au cours de FLE

    Je viens de faire une expérience intéressante avec mes étudiants d’A1 pour tester leur compétence en expression orale. Suite à un atelier sur les notions de l’examen à livre- ouvert et de l’utilisation des portables pour faire filmer les productions orales, j’ai lancé une activité de compréhension et d’expression orale…

  • Bonjour India : Indiamore

    The second event of Bonjour India 2013 in Bangalore, Indiamore is a unique show uniting films, sound and images to produce music of astounding elegance and beauty by acclaimed pianiste, composer, and musical director, Christophe Chassol. The film starts with the most beautiful lines I’ve ever come across to describe Indian…

  • Bonjour India : Urban Ballet

    In the first edition of Bonjour India in 2009 I had walked away mesmerised by the elegance of Isabelle Anna and Quincy Charles who performed Kathak on western music in “Opus à Kathak.” Of all the events I attended in Pune, it was the Kathak performance that stayed with me for…

  • Dance DISCourse – helping Indian Classical Dance Forms Perpetuate.

    A complete ignoramus when it comes to dance forms, I was initiated to Indian classical dance by a close friend who is a trained danseuse of the Bharatnatyam form. After attending a few dance performances by her and others in Pune, I was re-introduced to Indian classical dance in Bangalore,…

  • Lingering at Balur Estate

    Imagine walking up a winding path, surrounded by towering trees, hundreds of hectares of coffee, pepper, cardamom and betel nut plantations, the gurgling of the mountain stream and chirping of the birds the only other sound apart from that of the dead leaves under your feet. Top this with the…

  • Book Orgy

    A few months ago I wrote about the second hand bookstores of Bangalore, Blossom and Bookworm, regular haunts and the source of some of the most interesting books in my collection. I don’t remember a single occasion when I have walked out of either of these stores empty-handed. What truly…

  • Gourmand Geets : Sautéed Chicken in Creamy Mustard Sauce / Lettuce Strawberry Salad

    I was experimenting a lot in the kitchen in June, July and August and then suddenly I slipped into a comfortable space, sticking to the tried and tested recipes. The first strawberries of the season inspired me to make a gourmet meal and so with my sparse ingredients I looked…

  • Piya Behrupiya : A Colourful Shakespearean Pastiche

    It’s almost sacrilege to suggest that somebody could equal Shakespeare’s genius or even add to it, but theatre genius, Atul Kumar seems to have achieved just that with the brilliant adaptation of Amitosh Nagpal’s translation of the Bard’s Twelfth Night. I had been waiting for this play to come to Bangalore since ages,…

  • Gourmand Geets : Esplanade

    One rainy evening, after spending a week cooped up at home on a severely restricted diet, my friend and I were restless and our gourmandise was at its peak. We set out in search of good food in a tranquil ambience and found ourselves passing Esplanade on 100 feet road.…