Beyond the Star — India, a Culinary Continent, and the Limits of Measuring Taste If the Michelin star began as an act of classification, and matured into a global language of culinary excellence, its encounter with India feels less like an arrival and more like a reckoning. India is often described as a country, sometimesContinue reading “A Star on The plate-Part IV”
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A Star on The Plate-Part III
The Star Arrives in India: Presence, Practice, and the Limits of Adoption If the Michelin star’s journey across continents demonstrated its ability to travel, adapt, and recalibrate, its encounter with India introduces a different order of complexity. Here, the question is not simply whether excellence exists—few would doubt that—but whether a system designed to recogniseContinue reading “A Star on The Plate-Part III”
A Star on the Plate-Part II
The Star Travels — Globalisation, Translation, and Cultural Friction When the Michelin star left France, it did not merely cross borders; it crossed cultural grammars. Within France and much of Western Europe, Michelin’s judgments unfolded inside a shared culinary imagination. The idea of a restaurant as a distinct public institution, the figure of the chef asContinue reading “A Star on the Plate-Part II”
A Star on the Plate-Part I
From Tyres to Tables A Question That Refused to Be Small It began, as many serious inquiries do, with a child’s excitement. My nine-year-old grandson had gone out to dinner with his parents in Manhattan. The meal, by all accounts, was memorable. But what animated him afterwards was not merely the food. It was theContinue reading “A Star on the Plate-Part I”
Between Flights, Between Glasses
Airports are curious theatres of waiting. They are not quite places yet not entirely passages either—thresholds where the world pauses briefly before moving on. When I was in Helsinki, stopping over for a few hours on my way from New York to Delhi, that sense of suspension was heightened by the snow. It fell incessantly,Continue reading “Between Flights, Between Glasses”
India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part II
Profitability, Policy, and the Road Ahead If Part 1 traced the dramatic growth and fragility of Indian aviation, Part 2 examines why profitability remains elusive, the structural and regulatory bottlenecks that reinforce fragility, and what can realistically be done to secure the sector’s future. Despite soaring passenger numbers, airlines struggle to convert traffic into profits.Continue reading “India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part II”
India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part I
Rise, Dominance, and the Recent Crisis India’s skies have never been busier. Domestic aviation has grown explosively over the past two decades, carrying millions of passengers who would once have regarded air travel as a luxury. Low-cost carriers like IndiGo and SpiceJet have democratized flying, making it accessible even to aspirational lower-middle-class families, while full-serviceContinue reading “India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part I”
The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort
An Essay on How I Turn Every Vacation into a Mirror of Domestic Life Travel, they say, is meant to free us—from routine, from predictability, from the familiar tyranny of our own habits. It is meant to unsettle us gently, to loosen our rituals, to introduce us to novelty with a forgiving smile. umour, satire.This,Continue reading “The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort”
A Brief Tryst with Snow
I stepped out for a late afternoon walk on the roads of Short Hills, just after the land had been laid under a six-inch white carpet of snow. Overnight, the world had been quietly rewritten. Familiar streets, hedges, mailboxes, roofs, and lawns had surrendered their individual identities and merged into a single, dazzling expanse ofContinue reading “A Brief Tryst with Snow”
A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana
A Spirit with a Long Memory There are drinks you sip, and there are drinks you inherit—flavours carried through centuries, weathered by wind, sea, sugar, and story. In the Dominican Republic, and in Punta Cana in particular, rum is not merely a spirit; it is the distilled memory of the Caribbean. Spend even a weekContinue reading “A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana”
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