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| A kathi above the rest |
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| We find you the best places to sample the city’s fabled rolls.
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| Look twice |
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| Twins are a fascinating subject, but an exhibition of Ketaki Sheth’s photographs of twins does not engage.
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| Recipe for success |
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| Three years after he sold MTR, Sadanand Maiya has designs on the south indian snacks market.
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| Mumbai greens |
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| A farmers’ market and a home delivery scheme help bring fresh organic foods to city kitchens.
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| These spice girls sing in Sanskrit |
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| Try saying “kamala kucha chuchuka kunkumato” at one go. Difficult? But not for Maye, a six-member band that sings mostly Sanskrit shlokas. Language is clearly no barrier to enjoying music.
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| Oriental delight |
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| Bangalore’s food scene is bursting with so many new flavours that anything new ought to be treated with a bit of weariness. Or so one would think. Aroy, which specialises in Thai and Burmese cuisine, is the newest restaurant in town.
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| Cupcakes floweth over |
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| A bunch of small bakers serve them fresh, jazzy and guiltfree.
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| Colours of Russia |
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| Ludmilla Chakrabarty is an accidental artist. That’s not to take away from her art, but only to say that she didn’t train to be an artist. Born in the Russian province of Tver, Chakrabarty studied languages and taught English briefly, before marriage brought her to India. It’s in Delhi, where she’s been living for 12 years now, that her art has flourished, taking on new directions. “The bright colours and themes of India have obviously crept into my paintings,” Chakrabarty says over coffee at the Barista outlet in Khan Market.
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| New expressions |
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| In the short three years it has been around, the New Festival at The Park has come to showcase a range of experimentation in the performing arts. This year’s edition, being held at The Park, Delhi, from September 3 to 6, is no different.
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| Tabla rasa |
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| It’s fitting that a museum to a tabla-player should be called Taa...Dhaa, the first beats of the tabla. Opened in December last year, Taa...Dhaa is a museum in memory of Pandit Chatur Lal, set up by his son Chiranjit Lal and granddaughter Shruti Lal. He was affectionately called Taa, says Shruti, hence the name.
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| The Jewish connection |
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| Walking through the narrow bylanes of New Market, the aroma of freshly baked cakes draws you to Shop No F-22. Founded in 1902 by Jewish confectioner Nahoum Israel Mordecai, Nahoum and Sons is something of a Kolkata institution. The 108-year-old confectionery is now run by his grandson David Nahoum.
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| Steno on the Summit |
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| A typist with Punjab National Bank is part of the first civilian team from West Bengal to scale Mt Everest.
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| The Wall Street Journal |
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| What did you do this Independence Day? On the drizzly Sunday morning, a couple of young Delhiites got together with the students of the National Association for the Blind to liven up their school walls.
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| A new album, a new idea |
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| Had the Beatles not picked it up, would the sitar have enjoyed the popularity it does today?” innocuously asks the soft-spoken Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, whose lifelong effort has been to popularise the sarod (descendent of the Afghani rubab). “It hurts when the West believes all stringed music coming from this part of the world is that of the sitar.
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| Flavours of the South |
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| From Koramangala to Malleswaram, from a standalone restaurant to just another fine-diner inside a mall is quite a shift. But thankfully, Bon South, the well-known eatery specialising in the cuisines of the South Indian states, has chosen not to do anything drastic with its food.
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