Things have changed a lot since the early days of the Xbox One, when less than a month following the announcement, Microsoft had to reverse many of the platform’s core elements.
Freshly rolled pastas, special rubs, sauces and seasonings, and of course, signature Italian biscotti… Chef Ritu Dalmia, the Diva of Italian cuisine, is making sure you have a slice of Italy right in your home kitchen. When Dalmia came out with her cookbooks a few years ago, she believed she had shared all she wanted to.
But the last few years found her constantly inundated with requests from friends on whether she could prepare pesto or some dressing or pasta sheets so they would not have to spend hours in the kitchen. It got her thinking. “Even I like to keep some basic stuff ready and handy so I can do a fairly decent last-minute meal,” she says.
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Over 18,000 entries poured in from children aged seven to 12 based in India, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
What is so special about JK Rowling’s The Ickabog? The book a bedtime story for Rowling’s younger children has been a decade in the making. The writer, like many creative parents, would make up chapters to read to her kids.
But unlike her peers, Rowling decided to gift the story to a larger audience during the lockdown in the form of a free online series. Besides, she offered her young readers a chance to collaborate with their favourite author. Stuck at home for a larger part of 2020, kids worldwide welcomed ‘The Ickabog Illustration Competition’.
Now, Biriyani and hotel experience comes to your dining table
Maggi fried with bhurji, caramelised onion and sausages may be Indrajit Ghosh’s go-to meal for a midnight craving, but he appreciates a good biryani.
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One of the first such services is the Mehfil-e-Behrouz a special dining out substitute for celebrations at home.
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Maggi fried with bhurji, caramelised onion and sausages may be Indrajit Ghosh’s go-to meal for a midnight craving, but he appreciates a good biryani. This global head, marketing communication and design, Rebel Foods which handles Behrouz Biryani among others is now planning to take the business a notch higher with experiential services. “Every brand needs to push the envelope to create customer journeys that are unique,” he says. One of the first such services is the Mehfil-e-Behrouz a special dining out substitute for celebrations at home.
Mangled limbs. Vividly painted images of severed fingers. A nude with a gash across its torso. Jogen Chowdhury’s works have always been reflective of the agony he feels. Be it his post-Partition days in Calcutta (he was born in Faridpur, present-day Bangladesh) or his period of study in Paris, Chowdhury admits that he has always been influenced by his environment. “My paintings reflect the situations around me and are motivated by social and political injustices.
Dark is part of my psyche,” he says. Gallery Art Exposure in Kolkata is presently showcasing Chowdhury’s works made during the pandemic. Titled ‘An Unfinished Poem’, the disturbing yet riveting images are a powerful comment on the recent history of our country. An octogenarian, Chowdhury’s imagination is still largely coloured by the memory of the small village in Bangladesh with its trees and temples. Coming from a family of zamindars, indulging in the annual Durga Puja festivities, community theatre performa