Amidst soaring apartment buildings and glittering malls of Bengaluru, Anjali and Kalpana live in a compact bungalow with jasmine bushes and a washing stone in the backyard. As the city around them changes rapidly, they too have to make a choice − on what to hold on to and what to change.
Mallika’s poems present the city in its myriad hues: its din and bustle, its nonchalance, colours and smells.
THE LOUNGE | TURN OF THE PAGE Ajay Ramachandran writes about his experiences reading the works of P.G. Wodehouse, what worked for him and how he thinks Wodehouse will fare in the future: ‘…as long as Shakespeare and Dickens are read, Wodehouse will also be’, he says.