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A Capital Idea

A Capital Idea

I was privy to a conversation between a dominating diva and her audience of like minded ladies at a recent...
A ‘Satay’ating Experience

A ‘Satay’ating Experience

The one thing which entices most people who love food is when food is cooked fresh in front of them....
Bamboozled in Phuket

Bamboozled in Phuket

Why do people take a vacation? It’s a getaway; it’s a break from the routine and above all just to...
No one’s a guest here

No one’s a guest here

The one thing about Goa I really adore and respect is that the whole State is like a ‘home’. Now...
Squid Pro Quo

Squid Pro Quo

It is funny how I actually started having meat, coming from a vegetarian background and to an extent a strict...
A Near Finish

A Near Finish

Just when you think you’ve had it, something else crops up which changes the way you think or believe the...
A Persian Dream

A Persian Dream

The temperatures soared to about 41C in Dumka, the second capital village of Jharkhand, one of India’s poorest states. I...
The Seven Series: Gluttony

The Seven Series: Gluttony

The Seven Series: Gluttony The third course with sin, completely inappropriate term for a food blog, is the monster sin:...
The Apple of my eye

The Apple of my eye

What is the one thing that binds a person to existence? If you guessed “Life”, then you are wrong. Life...
Yin Yang

Yin Yang

Opposites attract? Quite the contrary, they don’t attract but they definitely co-exist on interdependency. A dependency if set in motion...
Ground Control

Ground Control

I am sitting 35000Ft in the air traveling back to Mumbai, bored out of my mind and typing this out....
Holy Guacamole

Holy Guacamole

I was skimming through some old photographs on my phone, around 10000 of them, all thanks to the cloud network...