Now that we’re well and truly in 2009, and I’m no longer living from hangover to hangover (what is it about the last week of the year that makes Kolkata’s posh set want to emulate Paris Hilton?),  I think it’s time to indulge in a little nostalgia about 2008. I wasn’t going to do a [...]

November is the month of challenges. Self-imposed, utterly stupid and completely unnecessary ones that somehow affirm to yourself that you are cool even as you do things which are often not cool at all. I don’t know what it is about the month but it addles brains a little. A friend of mine had posited [...]

My uncle nicked my granddad’s old camera a little before I was born. This is why, until the age of three, every jiggle of my adorable baby fat has been faithfully recorded in my uncle’s black and white photographs. After that he got bored, which is a good thing because the last thing I need [...]