Sheetal Rastogi

| Listen To Article | For twenty years the summit of Indian dining was a room you could see from the lobby. The hotel ballroom. The chandeliered restaurant with the maître d’ who knew your father. Spending was the signal, and the grander the banquet, the ... See more

London in late June is a magnificent machine, and by the end of a fortnight inside it I could feel the machine running me rather than the other way around. Fourteen days of dinners that mattered, meetings that mattered, a city that never once stopped perf... See more

| Listen To Article | I’m writing this from a window in Mayfair, mid-afternoon, mid-June, and the light won’t fade for another seven hours. That detail matters. London in the third week of June is not a destination operating well — it is a destination ope... See more

| Listen To Article | The mental map most readers carry of the UAE was last updated somewhere around 2019. Dubai is the whole frame — skyline, retail, brunch, beach club, fireworks. Abu Dhabi sits at the edge of that map as somewhere with a Formula One ra... See more

| Listen To Article | Story of Style, Shopping and Luxury. I arrived in Milan the way one should arrive in a fashion capital—with time to wander and a promise to myself that I would shop less like a consumer and more like a curator. December had dusted th... See more