Chronicles from outside the Kitchen

For once, it was not Woody Allen who wrote my template for a city even though his urban scapes have imbued every other city I lived in...

ln the past few weeks, every time I have spoken to a friend or an acquaintance about to burn out from the corporate grind, looking to ...

Culinary Treasures of the Northeast While travel and food are intrinsically linked, sometimes the latter becomes a singular aspect ...

Food as a Map Through Which we Learn   This week, we continue our culinary journey across the country continuing from where we le...

India has long been regarded as the land of diversity, and in no segment is that more apparent than in its food which is as varied as it...

One of my favourite science fiction writers, Ray Bradbury wrote in his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, “See the world. It's more fant...

In Fort Kochi, one can never be far away from a good meal, a story and a picturesque photo-op. These are epic tales of a God that resid...

The last day of any new year is celebrated with gusto across the globe and more often than not, the party is often taken to the streets...

I recently watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and soaked in the beauty of Middle Earth aka New Zealand for the last ...

While Raj Kapoor might have been the first Indian director to take his audience to foreign locales with Sangam in 1964, it was Yash Ch...

Kolkata, the grand doyen of the East, where history is a living, breathing root of the city, providing it the nourishment to limp through...

 Kuala Lumpur or KL glitters by night. It is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis where towers and spires of chrome and glass exuding a diamond brill...

The crisp Sharad sky is corn blue and there is a light breeze fanning the dusty trees on the arterial roads of Calcutta. There is a part...

While The God of Small Things created ripples in the world of literature way back in the nineties, I waited 13 years to read Arundhati...

When I was much younger and my universe was constrained by the city limits of Calcutta, Coorg was a little squiggle on the map of Karn...