Masala Archives - Page 2 of 3

April 27, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema

Casting Couch as Livelihood Provider: Bollywood Makes Song and Drama of Rape Culture

The casting couch is just another piece of furniture that pretty girls aspiring to become Bollywood starlets should get familiar with in the prone position. The casting couch phobia...

April 13, 2018
Anumita Roy
Food

Dhoka, the Savory Lentil Dumplings

Anumita, our Managing Editor, shares a traditional Bengali vegetarian cuisine, Dhoka r Dalna (gravy of Lentil Dumplings). There are numerous vegetarian recipes in the Bengali cuisine, quite contrary to...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mamata Bending the Bow to Blunt the Arrow of BJP: Bengal Challenge Frustrates Foot in Delhi

Mamata Banerjee has one foot in West Bengal, the other in New Delhi, giving her all to cobble a Third Front which is a resurrection that always fails at...

December 31, 2017
Payal Talreja
Cover Story, Dissent, Films, Gender, Mass Media, Sports

Celebrating Women: The Year That Was!

Firebrand feminist, Payal, our columnist, says that from within the murk and gloom of crime against women, there were many who rose from the ashes like the mythical Phoenix....

December 15, 2017
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food, Relationship & Lifestyle

Of Wedding Anniversary and Two Yummy Bengali Style Fish Recipes

Sarika tells us about her 13th wedding anniversary, the loving care of her husband, who makes it grand every year and two fish recipes that her man loves. Read more...

September 15, 2017
Ruchira Adhikari Ghosh
Cinema, Humor

Bollywood Films: Mélange of Coincidence and Fantasy

Ruchira journeys through the masala Bollywood movies and tells us, tongue-in-cheek, with oodles of humour, who gains from it. Read more in the weekly column, exclusively in Different Truths....

June 25, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Karishma and Arjun Struggled to Carve a Place for themselves in Bollywood

Karishma Kapoor, a girl-child of the renowned Prithvi Kapoor family broke the family traditions, where women of the family do not act. She had drop school and become an...

June 9, 2017
Sonali Chakraborty
Food

Yummy Meatballs in Spicy Garlic Sauce

Our Foodie, Sonali, shares Indo-Chinese cuisine, chicken meatballs in spicy garlic sauce. It’s yummy, wholesome and quick to make. It’s a comfort food on a weekend. Read more in...

May 2, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

When Aloo was Lonely!

Humourist Soumya tells us about the journey of Aloo (potato) from South America, via Europe, to India. How was Aloo paired off in India? Read more in the weekly...

April 1, 2017
Smriti Maheshwari
Cinema

Bollywood Birthdays: Ajay Devgan, Praveen Babi, and Jeetendra took the Silver Screen by Storm – I

Three famous Bollywood actors, Ajay Devgan, Parveen Babi, and Jeetendra have their birthdays in the first week of April. Smriti, a movie buff, profiles them, in the new column,...