What do you do when your restaurant has been awarded the “World’s Best Restaurant” five times in a row? Announce its closure, if it were elBulli – gastronome’s once-before-you-die Mecca near Barcelona, Spain. Most people know Ferran Adrià as food’s
“Interesting television” is a slippery terrain – only a few can walk on it with such sure-footedness as Anthony Bourdain does – “What’s the most f***ed up thing we can do? Blue sky, what have we never been able to
Through The End of Food, Paul Roberts makes complex arguments around the culture, politics and economics of food. An interview with the writer-journalist. By Pritha Kejriwal. When you say The End of Food, it takes me to Fukuyama’s book The
Warren Mendonsa of Zero fame conceived Blackstratblues in 2007 after returning to Mumbai from New Zealand where he had migrated in 2004. They have released two albums till date, Nights in Shining Karma and The New Album, and are working on
A college dropout, an ace advertising professional and a novelist, Anees Salim is the new literary star with four of his novels accepted in a month and published in quick succession. Recently his second novel, Vanity Bagh has been shortlisted for The Hindu
What inspires you to design? One thing we definitely know is that misery and sadness doesn’t inspire us. Human spirit, happy memories, travels or even inanimate objects like a broken wall with a banyan tree (incidentally that’s the name and
By choosing not to present his line at Fashion Week last season and opting instead for an intimate showcase, you wonder what’s playing on the mind of Kallol Datta. Humour, satire, social commentary, eschewing stereotypes and trends or debunking notions?
In an interview with Shubham Nag, eminent sports writer and former cricketer, Edward Smith talks of the underexplored significance of sports in life, how sports shapes social histories and a lot more… One of your previous books- “What Sport
That a primarily instrumental album launched on SoundCloud by an independent Kolkata-based artist is travelling across the world, is an event in itself. Tajdar Junaid talks about his music, struggles and instrumentation in a conversation with Raksha Bihani. Your
A new website has been creating waves because of the massive hits it has received, days after its launch. A website dedicated to the ‘development man’, Narendra Modi. Bringing together content that exposes Modi’s well oiled PR machinery, Pheku.in is