Gaggan Anand is in India for a 20-day residency.
Editor’s Letter
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Gaggan Anand is in India for a 20-day residency.
Travel has that rare quality of opening the mind, of allowing us to view ourselves from a different perspective. Of going beyond today’s tropes of Bollywood, spicy food, and chai to reach the core that is truly Indian, rooting us in the culture of the sub-continent that goes back thousands of years. To sense the essence of this high-context, supportive society.
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor Have you ever read about or heard of a restaurant, and thought if the superlative praise they were being afforded were actually warranted? Truth be told, many a…
Travel has that rare quality of opening the mind, of allowing us to view ourselves from a different perspective. Of going beyond today’s tropes of Bollywood, spicy food, and chai to reach the core that is truly Indian, rooting us in the culture of the sub-continent that goes back thousands of years. To sense the essence of this high-context, supportive society.
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor I met Chef Manish Mehrotra in early December at his acclaimed New Delhi restaurant, To say that it is cold right now across the northern Indian belt is…
Everyone visiting the mountains wants a valley-facing room with the most splendid view. It’s how you want to commune with nature. It’s what you want to share on your social media feed. It’s one of the things you want to talk about when people ask you about your travels. But have you considered what this penchant for being perched on the edge of the mountains does to the destination?
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor I met Chef Manish Mehrotra in early December at his acclaimed New Delhi restaurant, Indian Accent. While my team took some time to set-up the scene for the…
Priya Pathiyan Deputy Editor How has 2023 been treating you so far? Have you got back into the swing of things at work and home? I find that the first week or…
Deepali Nandwani Editor Liquid Gold. Nolen Gur is an exquisite date palm syrup that approximates the shade of melted gold and infuses your Bengali desserts with a subtle gold shade. A winter…
Deepali Nandwani Editor Hello from a very warm Goa, which hasn’t partied its way into 2023. Just as I hope you have done, armed with your favourite tipple. I hope some of…
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor Food, as anyone studying the subject will tell you, is as much about the personalities, as what we eat. It is this that makes the food of our…
Priya Pathiyan Deputy Editor It’s that time of the year. When hotels are all sold out, flights are almost bursting at their seams, restaurants are buzzing and everyone’s out and about. This…
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor Hello there! Or should I say, ho ho ho? Well, we are just two days away from Christmas, and the festive spirit is running high as the temperatures…
Priya Pathiyan Deputy Editor Across India, there’s an uprising of sorts taking place. It’s as though the pandemic was the equivalent of farmland left fallow, after which the soil, which has had…
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor What is it about winter that fills us with inexplicable joie-de-vivre? There’s a different energy in the air, a spring in our steps, and an all-pervasive yearning for…
Deepali Nandwani Editor It is already the last month of 2022, and I am happy to note, as I end the year in Goa — my home of choice now — that…
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor So, we’re finally in December — which I feel is the best month of the year. The chilly winter breeze has started sweeping across the northern states, and…
Priya Pathiyan Deputy Editor Across India, there’s an uprising of sorts taking place. It’s as though the pandemic was the equivalent of farmland left fallow, after which the soil, which has had…
Vernika Awal Deputy Editor For all of us who’ve grown up in India, before liberalisation changed the way our country functioned, in the early 90s, eating out and being part of a…