No frills, only food

I do not often do food pieces, but there are some places which just have to be written about. Crystal is one such – unassuming facade, with excellent food. Here is a short feature on Crystal that appeared in The India Tube: No frills food.
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Atmosphere – that is the word that describes Crystal. The tiny [...]

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Bombay: city No. 1

CNNGo, the new city-pulse website from CNN has a great piece on Bombay – 50 reasons Mumbai is No. 1 – and it got me all choked up and nostalgic about Bombay (like I need a reason).
So here I am, with my own reasons on what makes this the city I love so much [...]

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Under a sky of flowers

In Bangalore – and after an extremely stressful first ten days, the dust looks like settling down and I am ready to start thinking about making an effort to stop missing Bombay (and I promise nothing, note).
For now, an old photograph from Bangalore – this remains one of my most popular images on flickr…

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Lazy London pic

I have been busy moving city and home and handling all the stress that comes with it – for those of you who don’t know (and why don’t you?!), I have moved to Bangalore. Hope to get back to blogging here soon.
For now, one of my all-time favourite images from London…

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Who is a foodie? Not me

Everyone claims to be a foodie… I remember hotly protesting once – “but I am not a foodie” and was asked with a big smirk “why, don’t you eat?”

Who really is a foodie? Is it someone who likes to eat? who loves to eat? who lives to eat?
Or is it someone who just likes interesting [...]

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Mumbai’s Dick Whittingtons

This is one of the blog posts I wrote as part of the auditions for the top 3 in the Great Driving Challenge…
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They come to Mumbai by the thousands everyday. They bring with them not cats but their hopes and dreams. They may or may not believe that the streets of Mumbai are paved [...]

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Bombay baarish…

…sounds so much better than Mumbai monsoon, no?
Anyway, the free ride is on and it is a lovely rainy evening and so what better time to head to Marine Drive? The sea link bridge has heavy slow-moving traffic, despite Amul’s latest ad that says ‘no jam, only butter’. I kept my eyes peeled for a [...]

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Sin and the city: street snacks in old Delhi

And if all the oil and spice of parathewaligali has not left you sated and/or with heart-burn, walk on…
As you walk out of Chandni Chowk station towards parathewaligali, ignore the Haldirams on your right. Or not. Of all things to eat in Delhi, I found their khandvi of the rare melt-in-the-mouth variety. So Stop there [...]

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Sin and the city: in parathewaligali

Established in 1875, says the board. Five generations. That is what Kanhaiya Lal Durga Parshad Dixit’s strangely spelt parawthe are about. It is easy to believe it. True, now the employees wear spiffy red T-shirts with yellow aprons and matching yellow caps, all carrying the shop logo; there is no such thing as too much [...]

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A pocketful of history

Published in the February edition of FlyLite, the inflight magazine of JetLite. (not all these photographs were published in the article)
A few years ago, Anantashram, the only restaurant inside Khotachiwadi went temporarily out of business. While most loyal patrons were dismayed at the news, I knew a few who felt that it was only [...]

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