Rajiv Menon talks about how ragas and legends of Carnatic music have inspired him as a filmmaker. Renuka Suryanarayan writes.

Nadaka says the geet-taar, with its integration of four instruments, helps him play the nuances and micro-tones of Carnatic music.

AfterAirlift, Raja Krishna Menon is makingChef, a road movie that explores the flavours in the country

Tucked away in the lanes of Ballard Estate is a roomy new restaurant that typifies the changing spaces in the city, courtesy the team that launched Indigo

The Russian Film Days festival showcases the best of the country’s contemporary cinema and strives to restore lost cinematic ties between the two countries in the aftermath of Perestroika

Sensex, Nifty updates on 18th April 2024: Equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty extended losses on Thursday. As per provisional figures, BSE Sensex fell 332.23 pts or 0.46 per cent to trade at 72,611.45 as of 3.35 pm and Nifty 50 declined 103.70 pts or 0.47 per cent to trade at 22,044.20., Bharti Airtel, Power Grid Corp, M&M, BPCL, and Tata Steel were the top gainers, while Nestle, Apollo Hospitals, Axis Bank, HCL Technologies, and ONGC were the major laggards. The stocks that hit a 52-week high on the NSE include AAA Tech (19.33 per cent), Just Dial (12.95 per cent), Indo Tech (10 per cent) and Hi-Tech Gear (10 per cent).

Credit risk funds, which invest at least 65 per cent of their portfolio in corporate bonds rated AA or below, offer a shot at high accrual returns

Rahul Goswami, CIO &MD - India Fixed Income, Franklin Templeton Asset Management, on what investors can expect on the debt side from the AMC and on his rate cut expectations

Exposure to indigenised defence spending through a passive fund

If you’re a Non-Resident Indian eyeing India’s growth story, here are the basics that matter

ICICI Prudential Flexicap’s performance over the past three years places it in the top-quartile of its category

The ultra short duration scheme is a new offering from the fund house after a long gap

Book Review: Mass Historia
Fiction Book Reviews

Emmy award winning comedy writer Chris Regan has turned his considerable talents to past events and come out with a winner in this uproarious look at 365 days in history. Embellishing facts with liberal doses of light humor, history has never been more entertaining as demonstrated by the January 4 entry celebrating Utah’s statehood that explains how Utah became the forty-fifth state which coincidentally, was the average number of wives enjoyed by most Utah men at the time. Then learn about the army suppression of an uprising of a hoard of Donnie Osmond groupies and the five top Mormon fun facts.

Secrets of the Red Lantern: Stories and Vietnamese Recipes from the Heart
by Pauline Nguyen has been named Best Asian Cookbook of 2008 by epicurious.com:

BEST ASIAN
Secrets of the Red Lantern
by Pauline Nguyen (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Recipe to try: Salt and Pepper Tofu

Whether you want amazingly accessible Vietnamese recipes or just a good, honest family story with food, this Sydney restaurateur delivers. Her family memoir is a great tale of what immigrants both give up and gain in choosing (or not) to pack up and try another country, and if it's not always pretty, it is inspiring, especially with both vintage photos and pictures of the contemporary food Nguyen creates. The book is so beautiful you can almost taste the braised duck with ginger and scallions or the banana fritters.

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