The Indian wedding industry is pegged at an all time high of 50 billion dollars where every event planner, stylist, decorator, florist, caterer, makeup artist, set designer, choreographer has made a beeline to work in this dream industry. The grandiose nature of each wedding attended gets curiouser and curiouser: a world unexplored, an unseen sight,…
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Rise of the Foodpreneur– Sabyasachi Gorai
The F&B industry in India is facing testing times with the new FSSAI regulations hampering product imports. The global trends tilt towards sourcing local food, sustainability, decreasing carbon footprints and bringing to the fore local/regional cuisine and street food. These very principles are the mainstay of Chef Sabyasachi Gorai’s food philosophy. The ex-Director of Kitchens…
The journey of Kainaz Contractor from a food writer to managing Rustom’s
Kainaz Contractor, 28, a B.Com graduate by education, restaurant manager by training and food writer by profession always wanted to run her own restaurant, ever since she could remember. Her dream of running a restaurant made her decide that she would “Spend her 20’s learning about all aspects of a restaurant. The idea was to…
Shubbrato Dutta on Being a Motivational Speaker
Shubbrato Dutta lost his parents when he was quite young. There were monetary issues and to make his ends meet, he started doing odd jobs like managing a kitchen canteen and being a pick-up and delivery boy with a courier company in Kolkata. While he was with the courier company, the sales from his beat/territory…
Vic Gaffney and The Farmers Market
My wife, a vegetarian, likes her food and always wants to serve the best on the table: the freshest greens, healthy dips, sauces and natural homemade drinks. It was only natural for her to start understanding where her vegetables come from and what goes into growing them. In her quest for good food, she discovered…
Santosh Ostwal and E-irrigation
While spending his summer vacations at a Karegaon village near Pune, Santosh Ostwal used to accompany his grandfather, who was on crutches, walk a distance of one kilometer to the farm at unearthly hours. They undertook the walks to switch on and off the pumps that irrigated the farmland. This had to be done because…
Hot Chocolate
She found him huddled under the rickety wooden platform, on which she was performing. After the performance as she was cleaning the stage, she bent down to pick up her silver anklet which had come loose, she saw him. He was looking at her in fear and hunger from his sleepy eyes. The woman cajoled…
House of Recipes
One day he stopped breathing, just like that. It was a gray morning, dark clouds hovered around the village as if they had come together to pay their obeisance. The old woman who came daily to clean the house, discovered his lifeless body under the neatly tucked mosquito net. There was a smile on his…
The Promise and the Djinn
His family came in from the other side of the border during the great divide of our country. they found a modest 2 room apartment at chandni chowk to stay. As the head of the family he had to provide for his large family who had left their belongings, fortune, success and friendships which was…
Fragmented Memories
I once had a distant cousin, beautiful She danced, gracefully years passed, I am thirty now other day, she telephoned to meet, I declined I had preserved her, as my diva she insisted, came she limped, my memories shattered A story told to me by a bookseller about his beautiful cousin)