(January 16, 2024) Renowned for securing the best actress award at the 1965 Berlin Film Festival for her portrayal of a pompous Bollywood star in Merchant Ivory’s film ‘Shakespeare Wallah’, Madhur Jaffrey is a trailblazer in the culinary world. She...
(February 10, 2024) Dressed in a white outfit and traditional Gandhi topi, an army of about 5000 dabbawallas push through every nook and corner of Mumbai to satiate the hunger of over 200,000 Mumbaikars daily with home-cooked food for 125 years. This very lifeline of...
(February 2, 2024) Indians love their chai – no matter whether they are in India or abroad. Two Indian-American brothers with their roots in Kolkata often took to the streets of New York in search of that kadak cup of chai. But all they got was a westernised...
(January 24, 2024) “Now this is what I have travelled into the wild for, the chutney,” says Michelin-star chef Gordon Ramsay in his documentary when he travelled to India in 2010. Clad in a blue tee and beige cargo pants, he tries the red ant chutney...
(June 25, 2024) Have you ever wondered where old clothes and waste generated by textile factories end up? Usually in landfills. And there’s a lot of it. In 2023, the fashion industry produced 97 million tons of waste. Of this, 18 million were leftover textiles,...
