In praise of the Gujarati thali
by Published in The New York Times – All you can eat, all over Mumbai *** The Gujaratis are best known in Mumbai’s culinary scene for …
Category: Bombay
City of small things
My ode to Mumbai was published in the April issue of Silverkris, the inflight magazine of Singapore Airlines – read it online here (all the …
Mumbai’s poster boys
It was Haji Abu’s grandfather, and then his father, who passed on their love for Hindi cinema to him. Mr. Abu turned his hobby into …
Everything you want at Crawford Market
It is not easy to imagine this in today’s Mumbai, but it wasn’t long ago that anything considered “foreign goods” was hard to come by …
A walk in Chor Bazaar
Did you know Chor Bazaar was originally called Shor Bazaar? Till it became the place where stolen and smuggled goods found their way in South …
Visiting a Historic, and Hidden, Area of Mumbai
Khotachiwadi, a historic area of Mumbai, is like Platform 9 3/4 in the Harry Potter series: invisible to all but those who know exactly where …
Goodbye Chutney, Hello Soy Sauce!
I am now on a panel of columnists writing the Cityscope column from different world cities for the Sunday Post magazine of South China Morning …
Mumbai Diary 2010
From Jerry Pinto’s lovely introduction to Mumbai Diary 2010, based on the theme of Mumbai at work – Fourteen million people on the tiny finger …