Deepa Bhasthi traces the bleeding away of innocence from the memories of those who have had loved ones, homes, and entire ways of life ripped from them by the generations-long civil war in Sri Lanka. I used to ride pillion
Are stereotypes important for establishing identities? Deepa Bhasthi searches hard for that elusive element that makes her a quintessential Kannadiga…but fails… There is a Malayali joke, that even the Malayalis like telling. That of how, when Neil Armstrong landed on
Exploring our way through the meandering uncertainties of life, food may be the one constant- mapping where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going. Deepa Bhasthi explores food maps from the plate to the social interaction… and beyond.
This month, Deepa Bhasthi ruminates on the birth of new states, hopes, aspirations, hopes lost, histories, manipulations and more. P, my friend from the University days, always gets me Karachi biscuits from Hyderabad when she visits. Sometimes over pasta
This month Deepa Bhasthi goes looking for an El Dorado in the desert… the gold, the scent, the memories… “Very seldom in life does a book like Goat Days come along and ruin you for other books. It becomes
For arguments sake, you could say that writers, artists and creators of all things are rebels; they react to things differently than others and build a work that pushes many boundaries – their own, their practice’s, the society’s. By that