India, Aug. 5 -- In the 1983 film Zelig, Woody Allen (who also wrote and directed the movie) plays the eponymous hero; a man who manages somehow to know everyone (from F Scott Fitzgerald to Adolf Hitl... Read More
India, Aug. 2 -- I wrote, three years ago, about ordering delicious flakey keema samosas in Bengaluru from Anisa's Kitchen, a catering service run by the eponymous Anisa. I was introduced to Anisa and... Read More
India, Aug. 2 -- I wrote, three years ago, about ordering delicious flakey keema samosas in Bengaluru from Anisa's Kitchen, a catering service run by the eponymous Anisa. I was introduced to Anisa and... Read More
India, July 30 -- In 1982 when Amitabh Bachchan met with a serious accident on the sets of Coolie and then spent several weeks at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, all of India prayed for him. As Bachch... Read More
India, July 26 -- In North India, we use bhaiyya as a term of affection or respect: for your brother or someone you regard in the same way. But in Bombay, when I was growing up, it meant a 'person fro... Read More
India, July 26 -- In North India, we use bhaiyya as a term of affection or respect: for your brother or someone you regard in the same way. But in Bombay, when I was growing up, it meant a 'person fro... Read More
India, July 23 -- I only met Sushant Singh Rajput once. He was visiting Delhi and we met for a coffee at the Grand Hotel in Delhi. Sushant was charming, welcoming and utterly without guile. Unlike man... Read More
India, July 19 -- It is no longer big news to say that the restaurant industry is gripped by a crisis so severe that many restaurants may not last much longer. Lakhs of people will be out of jobs, res... Read More
India, July 19 -- It is no longer big news to say that the restaurant industry is gripped by a crisis so severe that many restaurants may not last much longer. Lakhs of people will be out of jobs, res... Read More
India, July 18 -- When Amitabh Bachchan tweeted that he had Covid, my reaction was the same as that of most people: shock, concern and a silent prayer that the actor would fight the Corona virus as ef... Read More