Archive

2023

On progress   03.06.2023

Enter Arcadia   27.03.2023

2022

On care   06.11.2022

A journey into fragrances with Dina Tsiknia   15.07.2022

3 ways to get started with your family history research   25.06.2022 

Sounds from a May morning walk   20.06.2022

Past lives – and an interview   19.06.2022

Orchids (and women) in art history   11.05.2022

Motions, emotions: Q&A with Chiara Della Santina   10.05.2022

The pleasures of reading "Object Lesson" by Teju Cole   25.04.2022

A jack of all trades is better than a master of one   28.03.2022

The most ideal (luxury) handbag   23.03.2022

Editing your own writing   19.03.2022

'Tis marvellous   29.01.2022

Memories of mentoring   28.01.2022

2021

Gingerbread stars from Mary Poppins + one year of Food x Books   31.12.2021

My winter of snow and fantasies   18.12.2021

Million dollar books   17.12.2021

Writing your family history   09.12.2021

Anxious People order (Swedish) pizza capricciosa   30.11.2021

Nora Seed and the Brazilian honey cakes   31.10.2021

How I planned, wrote and created my website   30.10.2021

Talking about Anne on a Wednesday morning   29.10.2021

Why everyone should have a personal blog - like this one!  08.10.2021

Catalogue essay: Straight Forward, Image Driven   01.10.2021

Carrot soup and Peeta Mellark's cheese buns   30.09.2021

A genealogical origin story   26.09.2021

Podcast episodes to inspire   17.08.2021

Crazy Rich Asians argue about satay   30.07.2021

Getting started with mind mapping   13.07.2021

A chocolate cake from Hagrid's coat pocket   30.06.2021

Alma Whittaker craves wentelteefjes   30.05.2021

#FlashbackFriday: Favourites from the attic   14.05.2021

Jing-Mei Woo inspires a ginger tofu dish   30.04.2021

Thirty-one going on thirty-two   06.04.2021

The Garage Girl and Maureen Fry's apricot flapjacks   31.03.2021   

Vianne Rocher's dark chocolate mendiants   28.02.2021

Anne Shirley's teatime biscuits   21.01.2021

2020

I take thee   31.12.2020

Culinary comforts   22.12.2020

My 5 favourite podcasts this holiday season   22.11.2020

A Goan monsoon sequel   25.10.2020

Revival   14.10.2020

Staying in with Mario de Miranda   16.04.2020

5 ways to view amazing art online   28.03.2020

2019

Pinned post: The evolving art of brooches   09.10.2019

The botanical imagination   25.09.2019

Stepping into the past in Chunar   27.07.2019

What is the use of a book without pictures?   22.06.2019

On the road: 10 hours   27.01.2019

2018 

Beginnings (Bombay III)   01.09.2018

In memoriam   07.08.2018

A Greek song about Madhubala   31.05.2018

If on a hot summer's night a fire   26.04.2018

Safwan Dahoul: So close and still so far   15.04.2018

The Monochrome March Project   02.04.2018

Takashi Homma: Letting in the light   21.02.2018

Gauri Gill: Play-acting the everyday   20.02.2018

Best of the Daily December Project   07.02.2018

2017

Growing up with Anne Shirley   31.12.2017

Ark   24.12.2017

A vintage camera in Jaipur   04.12.2017

Let the rain come   03.09.2017

"A fly on the wall": Interview with Sooni Taraporevala on Mumbai, VR and more   30.08.2017

Finding my feet   26.07.2017

Mounira al Solh: Continuity, collaboration and "peculiar personal narratives"   16.05.2017

Finding Roerich in the Himalayas   27.03.2017

A familiar unfamiliar face   24.03.2017

In pictures: Fu Wenjun's "digital painting photography" in Beijing   15.03.2017

2016

The red bridge   03.12.2016  

Parallel possibilities   07.05.2016

The dream catcher   22.04.2016

The girl who loved obituaries   11.04.2016

Belgian windows   22.03.2016

Notes from a year of line dancing   14.03.2016

Work in progress   09.03.2016

Negation and nostalgia: Interview with Palestinian photographer Rula Halawani   16.02.2016

2015

Lessons from Linklater   31.12.2015

Hurt   14.11.2015

Postcards from Greece (part 2)   29.10.2015

Postcards from Greece (part 1)   15.10.2015

Gone in waves   02.10.2015

Paneer   04.07.2015  

A fairytale in six chapters   28.05.2015

Don't settle   08.05.2015

Nepal on film   28.04.2015

Au revoir   18.04.2015

Mix tape   23.03.2015

Bombay II   06.03.2015

Visual fables: Photographer Karen Knorr's song for India   09.01.2015

2014

Ghosts   01.12.2014

Fall   15.11.2014

Diwali   24.10.2014

Singapore   28.09.2014

Presence   24.09.2014

Uninvited guest   12.09.2014

Silke Schmickl on body politics, video and the moving image at Beirut Art Fair 2014   12.09.2014 

One day in Budapest   16.07.2014

Humans of Vienna   30.06.2014

Art Basel Hong Kong 2014: First time participant galleries prepare for the fair   09.05.2014

Artist Nadim Abbas talks cocktails, bunkers and weevils   09.05.2014

Manila's mean streets (2): Interview with the founders of the Filipino Street Art Project   25.04.2014

Reclaiming the gaze: African photographers   20.03.2014

Indian artist Jayasri Burman on mythology and imagination   14.03.2014

February   01.03.2014

Fragments   08.02.2014

In the shadow of war: Interview with photographer Jamal Penjweni on Iraq today   06.02.2014

Colours and clotheslines   02.02.2014

Making art accessible: Interview with Neha Kirpal on the India Art Fair   24.01.2014

"Beyond official culture": Interview with Philip Tinari on Chinese contemporary art   16.01.2014

2013

The end   31.12.2013

The one with the lists   25.12.2013

Diptychs for a winter's day   24.12.2013

Prague's Golden Lane   17.12.2013

Neal's Yard   17.11.2013

The Third Eye   06.11.2013

Let there be light   04.11.2013

Once upon a time in Pilani   29.10.2013

"Collective creativity": Delhi Photo Festival 2013   18.10.2013

Charmed in Prague   15.10.2013

Wild iris   07.10.2013

Of photo albums and the impatient generation   23.09.2013

Notes to self   16.09.2013

The colours are in Regent's Park   07.09.2013

Marietta   28.08.2013

48 hours in Noida   25.08.2013

Up above my house   19.08.2013

One week in London   13.08.2013

Muse   09.08.2013

Berlin from (and below) the streets   18.07.2013

Parallel/future   07.07.2013

Letting go   30.06.2013

Wings   23.06.2013

Life at Russell Square   19.06.2013

Godot   02.06.2013

Bon appetit!   13.05.2013

Shakespeare in India, India in Shakespeare   29.04.2013

Paris in pictures (2)   25.04.2013

Paris in pictures (1)   24.04.2013

From page to stage   20.04.2013

Schnitzel, prisons and tales from Heidelberg Castle   13.04.2013

Finding Gallieni (Paris 3/3)   30.03.2013

November's London   24.03.2013

White lies   21.03.2013

Shelling peas   10.03.2013

It's all about feet (Paris 2/3)   23.02.2013

Song 01   13.02.2013

Five   12.02.2013

The artist from Lille, or, I got conned (Paris 1/3)   22.01.2013

Wander   13.01.2013

Belgium, bulleted   10.01.2013

Notes from Heathrow Airport   05.01.2013

2012

Twelve   31.12.2012

Social media, social movements and the problem of passivity   24.12.2012

The night I ruined one of my favourite Christmas movies   22.12.2012

Things unsaid   20.12.2012

Delhi   18.12.2012

8 tips for budget travel -- on a time limit   16.12.2012

Christmas market in Delhi   10.12.2012

Symmetry   06.12.2012

In the distance   01.12.2012

Parliament   29.11.2012

Oz   25.11.2012

London's West End   24.11.2012

London streets from a misty bus window   21.11.2012

Cam-bridge   20.11.2012

;)   18.11.2012

V&A   14.11.2012

Ears wide open   11.11.2012

Stained glass   10.11.2012

The gaze, or art imitates life imitates art   07.11.2012

Bubbles   06.11.2012

October   01.11.2012

The graze   30.10.2012

Wishfulness   30.10.2012

How to carve a pumpkin   29.10.2012

Made in France   29.10.2012

Golden Versailles   23.10.2012

Back to the books   19.10.2012

Because I love churches   13.10.2012

Baking on a rainy day   05.10.2012

When the sky fell down   27.09.2012

Week 52: Finale   23.09.2012

The story of Tess   21.09.2012

Week 51: It's time for some goodbyes   15.09.2012

Week 50: Not long now...   08.09.2012

Week 49: Silly things and coloured cows   02.09.2012

Pebbles   31.08.2012

Week 48: Textures   26.08.2012

WIGS: Of women   21.08.2012

Week 47: Midnight oil   19.08.2012

Travelling   17.08.2012

Time for tea   16.08.2012

Dissertation lesson   15.08.2012

Week 46: The closing   13.08.2012

Kristyna of Prague   07.08.2012

Brussels: 6 a.m. in a Starbucks   06.08.2012

Week 45: Birthdays and presents   04.08.2012

Bridges and blue horizons   03.08.2012

Week 44: Revisiting 'Before Sunrise'   30.07.2012

Brussels   28.07.2012

Dream July   27.07.2012

Week 43: Charles Bridge   25.07.2012

Week 42: The tower in the rain   15.07.2012

Week 41: Green   07.07.2012

Week 40: Food   03.07.2012

Week 39: Birthday week   24.06.2012

Grey   19.06.2012

Week 38: Celebrations   17.06.2012

Week 37: London walks   11.06.2012

Flotillas and headboppers   04.06.2012

Week 36: Jubilee weekend   03.06.2012

Week 35: Tans and sunburns   27.05.2012

Week 34: After exams   20.05.2012

Oxford   17.05.2012

Five years and counting   14.05.2012

Week 33: Snapshots from Oxford   13.05.2012

Week 32: Examinating   06.05.2012

Wisecracks and raincoats   06.05.2012

Week 31: The Globe   30.04.2012

Bangles   24.04.2012

Week 30: A garden party? Yes, please!   21.04.2012

The Bloomsbury Group   19.04.2012

Week 29: Eyes on the street   14.04.2012

People, film, people on film   14.04.2012

Week 28: Plaque questing in Bloomsbury   08.04.2012

When you miss Christmas   05.04.2012

Week 27: People and sunshine in Windsor   31.03.2012

Week 26: Spring   25.03.2012

The balancing act   22.03.2012

Being a student   20.03.2012

Week 25: Gifts and stuff   17.03.2012

Do you want to play?   13.03.2012

The invisible   11.03.2012

Week 24: A weekend in Norwich   09.03.2012

Week 23: Greenwich   03.03.2012

Time   29.02.2012

All I want is you   28.02.2012

T.S. Eliot hung out in Bloomsbury   27.02.2012

Week 22: Walk on   25.02.2012

Week 21 (part 2): Bristol   20.02.2012

Week 21 (part 1): Wales   17.02.2012

Cardiff/Caerdydd: Men in kilts   17.02.2012

The Chaucer Bookshop   15.02.2012

Week 20: Icing   11.02.2012

Platform 9 and 3/4   07.02.2012

Week 19: Vanilla twilight   04.02.2012

Snow, hey oh!   04.02.2012

The spell has broken   02.02.2012

Week 18: A Canterbury tale   29.01.2012

Week 17: Somerset House   21.01.2012

Week 16: Ice in Canary Wharf   15.01.2012

Whee!   15.01.2012

Week 15: Returns   07.01.2012
  

2011

One year   31.12.2011

Week 14: Twilight on the Thames   31.12.2011

May you have...   29.12.2011

A polaroid Christmas   27.12.2011

Holiday season   24.12.2011

Week 13: Oxford Circus   24.12.2011

A Christmas card   21.12.2011

Week 12: One week to Christmas   18.12.2011

Week 11: Piccadilly   10.12.2011

Chilly London nights   07.12.2011

Week 10: The Brunswick   02.12.2011

An evening of Strauss and Mozart   29.11.2011

Kensington Gardens   28.11.2011

Week 9: Symphony   25.11.2011

Week 8: Books and tea   18.11.2011

Week 7: Cambridge   12.11.2011

The journey from platform 11   09.11.2011

Week 6: The British Library   06.11.2011

Week 5: Cakes   29.10.2011

Of food   23.10.2011

Week 4: Sometimes it rains   22.10.2011

Three is company   17.10.2011

Strawberries   17.10.2011

Week 3: Autumnal   15.10.2011

The Queen's Walk at twilight   13.10.2011

Week 2: Not all those who wander are lost   07.10.2011

Overview   04.10.2011

Week 1: King's Cross   26.09.2011

Namaste (from) London!   24.09.2011

Gap year-and-a-quarter   19.09.2011

xoxo, Delhi Girl   14.09.2011

Life in bokeh   06.09.2011

Agra: Of turrets, tombs and arches   31.08.2011

Goody two shoes   24.08.2011

Dancing   21.08.2011

Once upon a time in India (A fairy story)   17.08.2011

Feathers   13.08.2011

The Patronus Moment   12.08.2011

Where friendships are made   07.08.2011

Once upon a time   06.08.2011

Back to school   04.08.2011

Happy birthday...   31.07.2011

Worship   31.07.2011

Addiction   26.07.2011

Polaroid love!   25.07.2011

It will never end   21.07.2011

8 movies you should watch   12.07.2011

Things I learnt while on holiday   11.07.2011

Our little corner of the world - 2   06.07.2011

Our little corner of the world - 1   04.07.2011

The golden days of tennis   04.07.2011

The Secret   02.07.2011

Bye, Delhi!   19.06.2011

Warmfuzzy   17.06.2011

Helpless   16.06.2011

Hello, sunshine!   15.06.2011

Postcard from Manipal   10.06.2011

A conversation   08.06.2011

Singapore finale: A place called here   03.06.2011

Experiments with video   30.05.2011

Stone walls   26.05.2011

An idea can change your life   25.05.2011

Growing up   22.05.2011

Anxious   20.05.2011

Qatar Embassy, Delhi   19.05.2011

Chinatown till twilight   17.05.2011

Phoenix   15.05.2011

Rediscovering...   12.05.2011

And then there were guitars...   02.05.2011

Singapore VI: Misted windows and birds   28.04.2011

Happy Easter!   24.04.2011

Singapore V: Ice   16.04.2011

Not just jazz   10.04.2011

Stuff that makes me go :D   07.04.2011

Sundowning   05.04.2011 

Raising the curtain on Parsi theatre in Calcutta   31.03.2011

Of forts and glassy lakes   30.03.2011

Afternoons off   29.03.2011

Metal and more   26.03.2011

Cranes   21.03.2011

I see sparks fly... (Singapore IV)   19.03.2011

Workshops in the sun   17.03.2011

Free as a bird   10.03.2011

Familia   07.03.2011

All I know   02.03.2011

Chinese things (and Singapore III)   27.02.2011

The dancer   24.02.2011

Penguins!   19.02.2011

The sea and the sea shore   15.02.2011

Singapore II: Wild night   10.02.2011

Color me red   09.02.2011

Singapore I: Dawn in an aeroplane   29.01.2011

Songs for the year   01.01.2011

2010

It's the most wonderful time of the year   26.12.2010

Agra: Mughals et al (2)  14.12.2010

Agra: Mughals et al (1)   07.12.2010

Potter at last   22.11.2010

Smile with your liver   19.10.2010

Five star   04.10.2010

Quester   12.09.2010

Cushioned   03.09.2010

Neemrana   06.08.2010

Vanilla   27.07.2010

A note on travel   22.07.2010

(Ex)terminating termites and other stuff   20.07.2010

A goodbye note   13.07.2010

Everything you need to know about...   10.07.2010

Of weekends and oracles and rain and books and football and Facebook   07.07.2010

We're nothing but a pack of neurons   13.06.2010

Getting ahead   09.06.2010

June   02.06.2010

What's in a name? (Summer things)   30.05.2010

Three   14.05.2010

Twitterature: The end of an era?   06.04.2010

Conquering fear, and how   22.03.2010

Breathe...   26.02.2010

Jaipur (part 1)   28.01.2010

2009

Vicky Cristina Barcelona   30.12.2009

If only   20.12.2009

Maybe...   11.12.2009

Obliviate   23.11.2009

To you, with love   16.10.2009

Travel tales   08.10.2009

Booked   06.09.2009

Where the colors don't go   05.09.2009

Kites   19.08.2009

Mothers and daughters   25.07.2009

The clock   15.07.2009

To Poona and back   14.07.2009

Of photography   18.06.2009

Allez!   08.06.2009

Bouillabaisse   03.06.2009

Democracy et al   09.05.2009

A week in the life of   19.02.2009

The day that was   02.02.2009

Nostalgia   05.01.2009

2008

Christmas tree, my Christmas tree   25.12.2008

False Fire   17.12.2008

Deutscher Weihnachtsmarkt   11.12.2008

Endings   01.12.2008

Karva Chauth   21.10.2008

Sepia faces   14.10.2008

Chocolate and more   29.09.2008

Happily ever after   07.08.2008

Summer is gone   16.07.2008

On turning 19, Amitav Ghosh and the play that wasn't   24.06.2008

Excitement!!   17.06.2008

Lose yourself in Lansdowne (part 1)   03.06.2008

German, French and a short, short holiday   31.05.2008

Smells like freedom   23.04.2008

2007

Holidays in paradise   24.11.2007

Rubaiyat   13.11.2007

The watch   31.10.2007

Reading Ambai   30.10.2007

Words, walk on glass   29.09.2007

Rendezvous   24.09.2007

Listless   15.08.2007

The letters that never come   05.07.2007

April Fools' Day   02.07.2007

Bombay I   26.06.2007

SATs, stars and...stuff   04.06.2007

You are not alone   21.05.2007

The classroom   20.05.2007

The rosebud   14.05.2007