With Your Chai

A late-summer cultural edit with peach panzanella, Khruangbin's A LA SALA, Perfect Days and Tove Jansson's The Summer Book.

Four things for a nostalgic evening with chai: Parle-G, Sade's Love Deluxe, Monsoon Wedding and A Place for Us.

An Independence Day edit of samosa chaat, A.R. Rahman’s Vande Mataram, Lagaan and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

A late-August edit of roast peaches and jaggery kulfi, Anoushka Shankar at dusk, Mumbai after dark and Kiran Desai’s sprawling summer paperback.

A late-summer edit for the last long evenings: spicy sweetcorn, Arooj Aftab after dusk, a joyful British-Pakistani film and a quietly brilliant novel.

Bombay sandwiches, Nitin Sawhney, Bend It Like Beckham and a family saga for a slow afternoon indoors.

A book, a film, music and a familiar biscuit for anyone thinking about identity, migration and the many meanings of home.