Despite the oft-bandied stereotype involving mustard drenched fish ensconced in moats of steaming rice, there is an uncontained exuberance about the Bengali approach to food that’s bound to infect you, even if the fish-and-rice routine is what you’re expecting.

Delve a little deeper into the Bengali palate and you’ll find an astonishing range of flavours, textures, and indeed even parts of flora and fauna that you didn’t know could ever dream of seeing the right end of a chef’s palm, much less taste so startling delicious.

Herein lies the ingenuity of Bengali culinary ...

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With the winter fast fading and the sun growing stronger and sunnier every day, our appetites are thirsting for the perfect blend of summer freshness and winter comfort, a concoction to warm us from within as well as treat our senses to the refreshing scents and flavours of sweet spring. And to our rescue comes the deliciously sweet, elegant and zesty Mojito!

The perfect mix of a delightful sweetness, refreshing citrus and mint, and the potent flavour of Cuban white rum, the Mojito is a celebratory drink. What for? Well, for anything! The Mojito marks any and all occasions, carrying ...

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Yusuf Arakkal's The Newspaper Reader belongs to a series of paintings in which the artist consciously dealt with the same subject: newsprint in all its meanings, shapes and fashions.

"Among those works which are with collectors across the world, I think this particular work is [the] most satisfying... I was doing this series inspired by newsprint layouts and [their] various manifestations... I have used torn newspaper pieces... I distinctly remember [a] sketch [I made] of a person who was reading a newspaper in three poses – that [is what] I used as the basis for this ...

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Join Chef Liang as he explores the vegetable and fish markets of Mumbai, encounters a hungry cat and chances upon some very fresh 'catch' straight out of the sea... all in his quest to bring us the ultimate Hunan Style Mixed Dry Meats & Vegetables.

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It's hard to think of chemistry amid a rapturous moment.

But then, this is exactly the kind of thought-altering revelation Hunan Style Mixed Dry Meats & Vegetables is.

The complexity of flavours, the crispness of each ingredient, the distinct temper of each spice and the intense pleasure of its ...

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I am a regular guest in your Hotel and want to compliment the whole of ITC staff and management for the zeal to serve the customers which makes me to return to this hotel week after week for more than a year now. I want to specially compliment following staff for their exceptional service attitude :
1. Mr Gaurav at Peshwa Pavilion
2. Mr Bhaskar and Ms Liya at Upper Crust Butler Service
and 3. Ms Vasiqa at reception.

Thanks and ...

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