Food Review: PizzaExpress
If you eat at a PizzaExpress restaurant rather than order in, there is a huge difference in taste. At the outlet, the pizza comes piping hot out of the oven …
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Restaurant Review: Fabcafé
The all-day Indian Inspired Bistro Fabcafé aims to provide fresh, simple and healthy food flavours that are uncomplicated and clean. All this brouhaha about healthy foods, alternate grains etc etc …
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Food Review: Burger King
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again! The name Burger King is a misnomer there is nothing kingly about their burgers. I placed …
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Food Review: A Meal for Rs 20
This is an amazing enterprise that feeds drivers, watchmen, courier boys and anybody who needs a quick snack at a sharp price writes Vickram Sethi. If you were to hear …
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Food Review: Smokin’ Joe’s Pizzas
Vickram Sethi reviews the fare at the pizza delivery chain. His verdict: Disappointing The name Smokin’ Joe’s suggests an American Cowboy Cigar in the mouth, guns on the bolster and …
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The Nation wants to Bak-Bak
India has a well-deserved reputation for being a very competitive nation on the world stage. We beat the Asian nations in business processing outsourcing, back-office telephony, computronics. It will take …
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Food Review: McDonald’s. Ordering in a Burger is a Bad Idea
If u want to eat a burger go to McDonald’s or Burger King whichever you prefer but don’t Swiggy it. All in all, it was a bad idea, writes Vickram …
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Royal & Value for Money. The Behrouz Biryani Review
To serve a mass market and yet be able to deliver on time, food still warm and nicely flavoured – is a credible feat, writes Vickram Sethi in a review …
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Restaurant Review: No cutting corners at the 150-yr-old Leopold Café
Forty years ago, it was a great place to go to – and it still is. If you are in South Bombay, I would recommend a visit, writes Vickram Sethi. …
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A Forgettable Night at Conrad
It seems that Conrad has become a wedding hotel, and not good for the business traveller. Service standards at weddings are low and there is a chalta hai attitude, writes …
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Restaurant Review: The Bombay Canteen
When it comes to dining out, Indian chefs have moved beyond outdated ideas of European cuisine and have started looking into their own backyard with innovative eyes, writes Vickram Sethi. …
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Let’s Talk about Death
It’s no secret that we are all going to die one day. We must prepare for it, writes Vickram Sethi Recently I was admitted to the hospital diagnosed with Covid-19. …
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Is Telemedicine the Future of Healthcare?
With rapid advancement of technology, it is likely that telemedicine will become convenient and widely accepted in the coming years, writes Vickram Sethi Sixty years ago, telemedicine grew as a …
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Love Like Sex Adore
The first crush, the first kiss and the first time, and the first heartbreak are forever memories – by Vickram Sethi Of all the rituals of love, the first date …
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Remembering Balasaheb
The sad demise of Balasaheb Thackeray seven years ago left a gap not just in politics but in the world of art, too. Vickram Sethi looks back November 17 marks …
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How the British Looted and Plundered India
A sordid, violent history is the legacy that the British Raj left behind, which has hobbled India’s growth even long after gaining Independence. By Vickram Sethi In the temple of …
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The Mother of All Road Shows
Hard on the heels of the Covid-19 pandemic, the plight of countless migrant workers walking across the country to reach home is India’s biggest tragedy since Partition, writes Vickram Sethi …
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Is Covid-19 Nature’s Revenge?
In the name of development, we have invaded nature for our needs. By Vickram Sethi For men may come and men may go / But I go on forever. …
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Traveling by Air India?
Carry your tiffin on flight writes Vickram Sethi Years ago I was traveling by Air India from Delhi to Mumbai. It was an evening flight. I met an acquaintance of …
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The Religion of Good & Evil
Partition and its attendant anguish holds enduring lessons for all of us, even today, writes Vickram Sethi The Sethis were wealthy traders from Peshawar and somewhere in the early 18th …
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Bikini Babes
Our film actresses of bygone days were not all demure, and we have the pictures to prove it! By Vickram Sethi #10 Nargis In Awara, Nargis dons a swimsuit with …
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Maldives: Azure Adventures
For Sea lovers, Maldives is one of the most gorgeous holiday destinations, writes Vickram Sethi Maldives is Mother Nature’s jewel in the Indian Ocean. It was one of my bucket …
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How Pitaji was Disowned by his own children?
It doesn’t take much to turn daughters from loving children into abusive strangers, writes Vickram Sethi The year is 1948. Daryaganj in Delhi is a predominantly Muslim locality. Many families …
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The Taste of Green Peas
When children forget how to love and care for their elders, what does one do? By Vickram Sethi A true story from the 1960s. Two friends, Arun and Jagat, lived …
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Just how do we change this Pehchaan of Indians?
We are like this only, but it’s no excuse for bad, boorish, rude behaviour. Vickram Sethi takes a close look at why ‘desi’ is the new four-letter word, in an …
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