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  • Les bouquinistes de Bangalore

    J’adore des livres. Mon rêve, c’est d’avoir une maison où une salle serait la bibliothèque. Une grande salle dans laquelle il y a une fenêtre qui donne sur un jardin et dont les autres murs sont couverts de livres. Bien évidemment j’aime des librairies. Un après-midi passé dans une librairie,…

  • Gourmand Geets : Experiments with Salads

    Some days ago, an old school friend posted on Facebook that she used to be a thin girl. I couldn’t help but empathise. I used to be a VERY thin girl and never imagined that I would ever have to control my foodie urges. (let’s ignore the fact that I…

  • Gourmand Geets : Secret Garden

    I heard about this restaurant from one of my first blogger friends  (somebody with whom I have still not been out for lunch/dinner, even after being in this city for a year!). A charming restaurant that serves French cuisine, a stone’s throw from the Alliance Française de Bangalore.  How could…

  • Bilan : Formation pour créer les activités interactives et les séquences pédagogiques pour La Salle des Profs, réseau social pour des professeurs du FLE en Inde

    Tout le monde sait bien que je suis une étudiante éternelle et que j’adore aller pour des stages, découvrir des nouvelles stratégies d’enseignement et surtout échanger des idées avec des autres profs. Donc quand j’ai eu l’opportunité de participer à cette formation pour l’équipe de modérateurs et contributeurs du réseau…

  • Book Review : The Story Catcher

    When my friend first posted about this book on Facebook, I simply “liked” the post. Every Tim, Dick and Harry was publishing a book these days. All you needed was a contact in the right place. Barely five minutes later, I was back on her post. The Seshan family as…

  • Rendez-vous with Pollock and Basquiat

    Jackson Pollock (2000) directed by Ed Harris The first film I saw during Desi Pardesi at the NGMA, Pollock was a film I wanted to see for several reasons. Till last year I knew nothing about Pollock, except that he featured on a tee-shirt I’d bought in France with the…

  • Culture Vulture : Rendez-vous with Indian Classical Dance

    My first real exposure to Indian classical dance was in February 2008 when a close friend and colleague at the Alliance Française de Pune invited me to attend the Shaniwarwada festival. Set against the backdrop of the vestiges of the Shaniwarwada fort, the two days of the festival were a…

  • Elephant Boy – film screening at the NGMA

    A fortnight ago, when I received this mailer from the NGMA, I knew immediately what I would be doing on Friday evening. As the week started, I had my fingers tightly crossed that a major hurdle in the form of an important release at work would not come in the…

  • Premier essai du Tableau Blanc Interactif en classe du FLE

    J’attendais l’installation le TBI depuis que je l’ai vu en France où je l’ai utilisé pendant le stage d’observation des cours. C’était une classe des débutants et le prof que j’assistais avait fait une activité de Thierry Perrot – un exercice d’association pour apprendre des parties du corps. Le TBI est…

  • Sundays at NGMA.

    The Bangalore chapter of the National Gallery of Modern Art, is situated on Palace road, not far from the Alliance Française, so when a student spoke about an exhibition of photographs by Homai Vyarawalla (see this Themeefy for more information), I decided to go there that very day. I was…

  • Gourmand Geets : Under The Mango Tree

    On a lazy weekend, looking for a new place to eat, we checked into Burrp and were immediately arrested by the enticing picture of Under The Mango Tree (or UTMT, as it is otherwise known). And so we went off to 3, Laurel Road, Richmond Town. It was a little…

  • Equal Opportunities You Said?

    From the day I first saw it, several months ago, before it became the rage it has now become, I’ve found it a highly silly concept. Frivolous and something befitting only the proverbial blonde. But these days, the world prefers all that’s simple and frivolous and so today, the site…