It is Friday night and I need a Dolo 650. Shashwat Prasad quickly assembles my prescription and slides it across the counter. It is a Dolo 651, he reminds me with a grin. “Stronger?” I ask. “No, trademarks!” Still, it quickly softens the stress of the wee... See more
Kidilum has the audacity to serve idlis on one of the highest rents in the world. This Kerala restaurant, planted in the heart of Manhattan, thumbs its nose at trend-chasing menus and the butter chicken clichés of Lexington Avenue’s Curry Hill. Set in the... See more
In the moonlit gardens of a palace, I stand in a cabbage patch with a chef and a hoe. Chef Bikram Chandra Khadka cuts through the warm earth, careful to keep his white apron pristine. There is a clang. We kneel and lift out a steamy bundle, wrapped in sac... See more
“How many of you weigh yourself every day?” Advertisement Advertisement About 90% of the people in the room raise their hands. We are at Revivo Metabolism Clinic’s Obesity Action Meet, and co-founder Arvind Ashok is on stage. He shrugs, with characteristi... See more
Swadeshi nationalism, Bengali devotion and tobacco form an unlikely triad. Yet I encounter all three on a chilly Boston morning, on a poster that would almost certainly be deemed anti-national by today’s hypersensitive standards. Bengalis of the early 20t... See more
