OFFSTUMPED is taking a break from its self imposed hiatus from the blogosphere to highlight a significant initiative for the Center Right movement to differentiate itself from the psuedo-progressive L… more →
Shveta Chhatra - Offstumped site for the New Big Tentcharukesi wrote 4 days ago: My piece on the Culture Aangan homestays in Sindhudurg appeared in yesterday’s Mid day – … more →
offstumped wrote 4 days ago: OFFSTUMPED is taking a break from its self imposed hiatus from the blogosphere to highlight a signif … more →
parmanu wrote 1 week ago: Straddling the border between France and Germany, the fortress town of Belfort is unremarkable save … more →
Niranjana wrote 1 week ago: Whether it’s about Iwo Jima or orcs and elves, writing on war depresses and bores me. Perhaps … more →
charukesi wrote 1 week ago: …sounds so much better than Mumbai monsoon, no? Anyway, the free ride is on and it is a lovely … more →
krishashok wrote 2 weeks ago: I realized that I mentioned board games in my last post but never ended up getting to it, so a quick … more →
Niranjana wrote 2 weeks ago: In A Little Stranger, Kate Pullinger has our noses pressed against the window of a home where a youn … more →
charukesi wrote 2 weeks ago: …Or Not. Betty bought some bhutta? Up? Or away? Heat? Or rain? … more →
Gautam Ghosh wrote 2 weeks ago: Web2.0 is the collective name for a lot of technologies by which people can interact with other peop … more →
charukesi wrote 2 weeks ago: In monasteries, as everywhere else in India, cricket rules. Here, one chilly winter morning at Bylak … more →
charukesi wrote 3 weeks ago: The silent, introspective poses… At Rumtek near Gangtok considered the largest and most import … more →
Niranjana wrote 3 weeks ago: Seldom, I believe, has a writer been as poorly served by her book covers as Elyse Friedman. Waking B … more →
charukesi wrote 3 weeks ago: The simit vendor shakes his fist at me. He is tired of tourists taking photographs of him and his p … more →
Gautam Ghosh wrote 3 weeks ago: I wrote this a long time back (November 2002) focusing on email listservs/egroups, but thought it … more →
charukesi wrote 1 month ago: Here is a plug for what I think is a worthy cause – Culture Aangan is a Bombay-based NGO that … more →
Niranjana wrote 1 month ago: Here’s some of the fiction I plan to read over the next couple of months. The shelf happens t … more →
Niranjana wrote 1 month ago: The past literary week brought nothing but misery. First: the wonderful and amazing site Readervill … more →
charukesi wrote 1 month ago: There is something about high altitude lakes – you climb up the mountains roads, gritting your … more →
krishashok wrote 1 month ago: One way of describing my profession would be – I leverage core competencies to build synergies … more →