What Did My 4-year-old Daughter Do At the Air Show and Was It Worth It? Living in Bengaluru, it is hard to ignore the Aero India or more popularly referred here as the Bangalore Air Show. Preceding the event, there is a huge built up in the media; people talk about it, as going to the air show is a mark of being a true Indian. The city, otherwise surviving on its overdose of IT, gets something else to hold on to and show its diversity. It will be three years that I have been calling Bengaluru home. It was high time for me to honor the city and visit…

Warning: Nursery admissions in Delhi will make you fee like a fresher who is going to college on a first day. Nervous, Anxious, restless are just the small words, its way beyond your imagination. And we are not trying to scare you!!!   After a two-month long battle, chaos and hard work (Yes I mean it) I sit relaxed as my child finally gets through the toughest task of admission process. All said and done but a feeling of disappointment and distress still bothers me. It is the system, which has shaken my belief in its sacrosanctity. It’s torturous admission process has trembled my love for the city called dilwaalon…

CHITRASHALA, is a visual treat of rare vintage graphics. Chitrashala is a journey, which takes you back to the era where any bollywood film publicity poster was an extension of the creativity expressed on celluloid. It also mesmerizes you with dazzling masterpieces of Indian calendar art from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. Preserving the Indian cinema memorabilia and other verticals of graphic art is the policy lawyer of global eminence, Sumant Batra. His passion to preserve the art steered the idea to curate Chitrashala, a one of its kind private museum aiming to preserve the precious vintage Indian graphic art. Chitrashala is…

She has kept the tradition of folk music alive in India. She is the queen of Indian folk music. Her euphonious renditions of Awadh and Banares has taken Indian folk music and culture globally. Her music is a rustic reflection of the larger Indian society. Her painstaking efforts to revive the Indian folk music have made her name synonymous with folk music in India. Yes! You got it right. She is none other than Malini Awasthi. In conversation with OFFDHOOK, she opens her heart out on Folk music and its struggle of survival in India. ODH – You have been singing for so many years and arduously working to keep…