Indian Passion: STRANGE GAME WITH STRANGE FACES IS HIT OF FESTIVAL'S FINAL DAY
Twenty-two cricket players took to the field in uniforms as white as the British gentry who popularized the game 200 years ago.From a distance, with their white shin pads on white trousers, their white shoes and socks, the figures in the center of the greensward could have been lifted right out of a Victorian novel.These, however, were not the playing fields of Eton, but a park just outside Fort Lauderdale in one of the county's predominantly black neighborhoods. Rock...
Indian Passion: GET READY FOR FOREIGN FOOD INVASION
At Anuga, one of the world's largest food and beverage trade shows, you can munch your way across the world by trekking through 14 vast exhibition halls, covering 2.8 million square feet of floor space.Wending your way around booths stocked with every conceivable kind of food, the atmosphere is like a giant bazaar. There are olives, olive oils and salt-cured hams from Spain; Turkish dried fruits; Chinese sauces; Australian crocodile, wallaby and emu; French pates and foie gras;...
Indian Passion: I'M SO PROUD
Team gave all, says Waugh
STEVE Waugh saw his Holy Grail disappear forever last night, but still felt it was a feather in the cap of a team with nothing more to give. Cutting a totally exhausted figure as he spoke of Australia's two-wicket loss in yesterday's pulsating Test finale, Waugh spoke with pride of his side's effort to come close to snatching what would have been the victory that crowned his career.Beating India in India was his last unfulfilled career goal and yesterday...
Indian Passion: HARVARD SQUARE EATERY OFFERS AN EDUCATION IN INDIAN FOOD
My first taste of India's cuisine was a revelation, experienced in my early 20s when some Indian friends staved off homesickness by cooking lamb curry, yellow daal (lentils), puffs of poori (deep-fried bread), and other dishes. The evocative spices, the heady scent of cardamom and curry, the pungent bite of pickles comforted them. To me, it was all new, all exciting.Only later, after many a restaurant meal, did the thrill wear off. Oh, the spices, the scents, the bite of...
Indian Passion: The Economic Times:
Few can bend it like Chadha
Gurinder Chadha is a decidedly dumpy woman with a superbly streamlined brain and a life story that reads like a cross between a travel itinerary and a geography lesson. Born to Sikh parents in Kenya; brought up in Southall, west London; married to a Japanese American; shuttling between homes in Los Angeles and London; feted by the beautiful people on three continents for bringing British multi-culturalism to multiplexes everywhere and making it sell.Actually, that last bit almost...