Spice up your winter

THE INDIAN discerning diner today desires ‘out of the box’ culinary experiences. Chefs may present a decent meal at their fine dining set ups yet the food aficionados find it boring. Therefore, there is a challenge here for chefs to get out of their comfort zone and experiment. In recent times, the experiment of ‘pop […]

Leap of death

High-rise apartments becoming hotspots for suicides in urban areas – is it a coincidence or is easy accessibility a trigger? FOR SOME, death provides respite in testing circumstances. To artists, poets and philosophers it is a mystery that inspires. Religions have tried to make sense of it by creating scenarios of afterlife. It is the […]

Can the Indian government spend its way out of the slowdown?

 DURING AN ECONOMIC slowdown, a recession, or a depression for that matter, economists become one trick ponies. Most of them go back to John Maynard Keynes, an economist who lived during the first half of the 20th century. Keynes’s major contribution to economics was explaining the Great Depression of 1929. He explained the situation prevailing […]

Reinforcing old metropolitan biases

AAP making fun of Manoj Tiwari’s Bhojpuri work betrays cultural insensitivity A FEW days into the campaign for the Delhi Assembly election, the Aam Aadmi Party had its Sidharth Malhotra moment. Its rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, denounced a series of videos posted by AAP and its leaders mocking the BJP’s Delhi unit chief Manoj […]

Criminal tendencies

They are innocent until proven guilty. But the nominees of the three main parties in Delhi have grave charges of crimes against women Delhi Assembly elections 2020 are just weeks away. With the closing of nominations and candidates out, it is — as tradition calls it —important to look at the criminals in the fray.  […]

From meme wars to Twitter battles

Delhi BJP’s IT cell is trying its best to take on AAP. Is it working? In a corner of the BJP’s Delhi office, Punit Agarwal takes charge. He has headed the Delhi BJP’s IT cell since 2017. “Since the day I started understanding politics, I’ve been a hardcore BJP supporter. That’s 20 years of my […]

Celebrating Sridevi

Satyarth Nayak’s book on Sridevi celebrates both the phenomenon and the person she was, and gives us an insight into the world of the legendary actor “A ZANY chorus of Tathaiya Tathaiya Ho blared from the speakers. A bunch of garishly dressed dancers bopped before the camera. Sridevi twirled, Jeetendra whirled, surrounded by pots, feathers […]

CHEF OF THE WEEK

ARMED WITH a degree in hospitality from Jaipur, Chef Hemant Negi is currently shouldering the responsibility of handling the entire F&B operation of Romeo Lane restaurant as Executive Chef. Earlier Negi had gathered culinary experience at Royal Caribbean Cruise company where he honed his skills. In a candid conversation, he talks more about himself and […]