In Goa’s pastéis de nata, the delectable taste of a state’s cosmopolitan history

How egg tarts from Lisbon became a hit around the world – and in India’s smallest state.

Vivek Menezes

· Aug 12, 2021 · 11:30 am

Rohan and Kumar go to the baseball big leagues

Kumar Rocker and Rohan Handa are poised to take America’s pastime by storm.

Vivek Menezes

· Jul 22, 2021 · 08:31 pm

Reading the complex reality of India’s Jewish communities: Tiny – but still expanding

Constructed identities have particularly consequential implications when it comes to Jewishness – and the right to return to Israel.

Vivek Menezes

· Jul 07, 2021 · 11:30 am

Revisiting mid-century Dharwad in Girish Karnad’s autobiography, interrogating the tug of nostalgia

I was raised with an understanding of the college town as a place where India’s tryst with destiny was mined in an especially high-minded vein.

Vivek Menezes

· Jun 22, 2021 · 11:30 am

How Aminder Dhaliwal leaped from Instagram to be showered with praise in the world of graphic novels

Her new book ‘Cyclopedia Exotica’ has been garnering rave reviews.

Vivek Menezes

· Jun 13, 2021 · 11:30 am

In an encyclopedia of Maharashtra’s visual arts, vivid portraits that brush across linguistic lines

‘Visual Arts of Maharashtra: Artists of the Bombay School and Art Institutions (Late 18th to Early 21st Century)’ has been released in an English translation.

Vivek Menezes

· Jun 05, 2021 · 12:30 pm

#SaveLakshadweep: They paved paradise and put up another Gujarat

With controversial initiatives by the administrator appointed by the Centre, the ecologically fragile islands face an existential threat.

Vivek Menezes

· May 29, 2021 · 06:30 am

Naga writer Easterine Kire’s clear bright sound over a sleeping world

This quietly irrepressible one-woman cultural renaissance has pioneered the modern literary culture of Nagaland.

Vivek Menezes

· May 20, 2021 · 11:30 am

With Comixense, a new magazine aims to introduce young Indians to the magic of graphic storytelling

The initiative hopes to lure teenagers away from their screens and back to the printed page.

Vivek Menezes

· May 13, 2021 · 11:30 am

Listening to Christmas in the songs and stories of Nagaland

The state bubbles over with creative talent that manages an impressive balancing act between age-old community values and 21st century aspirations.

Vivek Menezes

· Dec 25, 2020 · 06:30 am

True-life confessions: Why the plot twist of ‘The Mandalorian’ web series made me cry

Thoughts about watching the show with my sons during lockdown.

Vivek Menezes

· Dec 20, 2020 · 11:30 am

#SaveMollem: In Goa, young artists are trying to re-imagine green activism for a media-saturated age

They have positioned art and culture right alongside scientific and legal strategies in the campaign against three environmentally destructive projects.

Vivek Menezes

· Dec 13, 2020 · 06:30 am