My friend Jil knows 7 lan­guages — Assamese, Ben­gali, Hindi, Kan­nada, Eng­lish, Ger­man and French. And I mean flu­ently. Not just one or two sen­tences. She’s from a Assamese-Bengali fam­ily. Lives in Kar­nataka. Learnt Ger­man. And is now learn­ing French. Leav­ing me quite impressed. Indi­ans I think tend to be mul­ti­lin­gual, by and large. In […]

On Sat­ur­day night, we went out for a Chi­nese place for din­ner. On Sun­day, it was a place called Susie’s (Cor­rec­tion: Sue’s Kitchen) for lunch. If you are vis­it­ing Ban­ga­lore or live there, you must do Sue’s (espe­cially, if you haven’t done it yet!). It’s a Caribbean restau­rant located in Indi­rana­gar. The owner is from West Indies […]