Under my byline

Oh Boy

Posted in Books by Rrishi on 4 July 2009

Roald Dahl, Boy (illustration, Quentin Blake)OVERLEAF 36

Growing up, my favourite author was Roald Dahl. For a whole season his George’s Marvellous Medicine accompanied me into the toilet every day. I never tired of the story, in which young George is left alone at home with his nasty, selfish, suspicious and sharp-tongued grandmother. He’s been told to give her her medicine, a foul brown concoction which is supposed to make her better but never does — in George’s eyes, anyway. So he decides to make his own medicine. (more…)

New stone age

Posted in Architecture/Design by Rrishi on 4 July 2009

Upcoming government buildings in Delhi lean on the past

It was Nature who set the pattern, equipping the neighbourhood of this capital with a supply of red Agra and Dholpur sandstone. (more…)