'Barriers have come across roads marking the end of Noida, the start of Gurgaon, the hard borders allowing no passage -- at least by day,' observes Kishore Singh.Illustration: Uttam......
Iftar parties for 'rozedars' in the city of Nawabs no longer conjure up the image of mouth-watering galouti kebabs with the aroma of lip-smacking biryani wafting all over. IMAGE: A view of a......
The new entrants are young, enterprising Chinese men and women who want to tap into the promising Indian market, discovers Nikita Puri. IMAGE: Ethnic Chinese perform a lion dance to celebrate the......
Minority conference organised by the JD-U turned out to be a poor show with few from the Muslim community attending it, exposing the falling credibility of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a secular......
Robbed of prey as people fled, Omar Perez came marching back and shot bullet after bullet into Prudhvi Raj Kandepi's head, thus ensuring that a man he had never met before, known nothing of, would......
So Swiggy offered 35,056 varieties of biryani to its users, says Peerzada Abrar. IMAGE: Biryani. Photograph: Kind courtesy Zaffran India ordered an average of 95 biryanis per minute, or 1.6......
Biren Somaiya, 38, senior advisor, JP Morgan Chase, regularly hops into High Street Phoenix in Mumbai's Lower Parel from his nearby home at King's Circle to pick up "goodies". Somaiya never has......
Faced with stiff competition, fast moving consumer goods major Hindustan Lever Ltd has decided to tap the rapidly growing direct-selling segment with the launch of ready-to-eat foods.Hindustan......
Did you know that there are over 26 varieties of biryani made in India?Or that biryani comes from the Persian word 'birian' which means 'fried before cooking'?Or that, though it is considered a......
Modern Love Hyderabad, even though predictable, is interesting in parts and keeps you entertained emotionally, observes Divya Nair. Modern Love Hyderabad is a Telugu anthology of six stories that......
The Big Sick is packed with delicious details, moments and scenes that makes the film stand apart as a smart rom-com, says Aseem Chhabra. What is it with desi stand-up comics in the US? In the......
Read, and learn! Gajar ka halwa is the barometer for ma ka pyaar and stars get their high by dancing around a giant batata wada. Clearly, Hindi films are obsessed with food. Surprisingly, we don't......
Reader Rajendra Mahajan hung out with Circuit. Working as a technical advisor in an MTV show called Chill Out back in February 2000, Rajendra had the chance to meet Arshad Warsi. The show was about......
He might be famous for playing cold, ruthless and tough characters on screen, but in real life Nana Patekar is one of the most warm-hearted people in Bollywood.Just ask his co-stars."He is......