Manasi Joshi Roy – This, that and the other

She’s called Ms Google. But the actor agrees it’s the unplanned moments that are the most memorable of them all What is travel? To me it is a series of images in my head strung together by gossamer threads of memories… The sound of a string quartet at Covent Garden, the fragrance of lavender flowers […]

I’ve worked before marriage, after marriage, taken a maternity break, gone back to work when my child was nearly two years old, worked for a couple of years and then again taken a break to be a stay-at-home mom… Phew! Now, after a long hiatus away from the arc lights, once again I’m a mom […]

Just a short hop over the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka feels both familiar and different If you’re going to get mythological about it, then Sri Lanka is likely the Lanka from the Ramayana – though some scholars do speculate that Ravana’s kingdom was actually somewhere near the Maldives. Which of these speculations will turn out […]

As posted  on The Quint Blog Dear Papa, Thank you for teaching me about gender equality way before it became fashionable to do so. Thank you for teaching me about it, but not because it was politically correct to do so. Thank you for teaching me about it through example. You and Mummy led that life, […]

‘Lights, Camera, Action’ is ruling my life again and I realise I’ve been looking into the mirror far too many times. After nearly a decade I’m back in front of the arc lights! And as the sound of ‘Lights, Camera, Action’ once again permeates my life I realise that I have been looking into the […]

I was in Agra over the weekend for a shoot & I experienced a different kind of Agra … primarily because I did not go to see the Taj Mahal or rather, I didn’t get a chance to visit it because by the time we’d pack up it would be past 5pm & they shut […]