Chronicles from outside the Kitchen

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...

Even before the stroke of the midnight hour  when India awoke to life and freedom, her political leaders had already found their feet o...

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

The quintessential kati roll was born in a cavernous and smoky Mughlai restaurant in the Byzantine back alleys of Kolkata called Nizam...

It is not often that one meets a chef and food writer who is an ex British RAF pilot, a stage lighting specialist an an expert on all t...

It was a bright Saturday morning, the kind of day you'd imagine that pretty young things would be lunching with friends or sunning ...

(the best-ever spoof of the original) There is something almost cerebral about sitting in a cafe sipping a cuppa with good conversatio...