Wine tasting event, Hotel Grand Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 7 Sep 07

Posted on Oct 1 2007
As a wine enthusiast, it was an honour for me to be at the Grand (Vasant Kunj, New Delhi) last Friday as a special guest of the Indian Wine Academy, New Delhi. Please see for the tasting notes of Kulpreet Yadav
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Thank you Sulekha

Posted on Sep 21 2007
It was nice to know that my travelogue of 'Pune' was published by The New Indian Express last Sunday as a 'blogprint'. Thank you, Sulekha!
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Darfur: Let's heal Darfur

Posted on Sep 19 2007
Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary general of the United Nations was recently in Darfur, Sudan. He has written a very profound and evocative article for Washington post about the condition. It was also repeated in The Hindu on Monday last.I remember, about a
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India (New Delhi) captured by my camera

Posted on Sep 10 2007
India is changing. and what better way can be there to capture this change than in pictures. I have gone around mainly in Delhi and nearby places ( called the National capital Region or just the NCR) to cature the different moods of urban India. Blog
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'The Flavour wheel', 'More good champagne' & 'Lavani dance and wine at Nashik'

Posted on Sep 8 2007
Well, the post is intended to share some of the observations that has a direct or indirect bearing on the 'Indian Wine Culture'. Not just the Wine journey seems to be becoming merrier with time now-a-days, people seem to becoming more and more inve
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Movie review: The Invasion, released 31 Aug 07

Posted on Aug 31 2007
MAKING MOVIES IS A SERIOUS BUISNESS. But it is also fun, as friends who work in the industry have told me. Combination of these two, at the field stage is the key to a good movie. If you get too serious, or too casual, both ways you get the whole dam
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123, Taliban releasing the Korean hostages and why do older guys fall for younger women

Posted on Aug 30 2007
Arguments are cunningly deceptive. For, they get you up and away from the most firmly held beliefs. And just when you thought you knew it all, another one gets you just right back.
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The old man : A Ghost or a Friend’s Father?

Posted on Aug 27 2007
How easy it is for all of us to side-step an old man, even he seems all alone. One of the thing I like to do is to give company to old poeple: in parks, at bus stops, in markets... It gives so much joy, so much solace to the forgotten...
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Tidbits from the daily grind

Posted on Aug 26 2007
I won’t fool myself into labeling Vir Sanghvi as the best political commentator surviving in the ever-intricately-messed-up-without-any-stopping ‘political gumbo’ we are being increasingly forced to analyze, resurrect and, worst of all, digest.
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De-alcoholized wines

Posted on Aug 26 2007
When my brother got me half a dozen de-alcoholized wines of New Zealand, I wasn’t impressed. Frankly, I only know of fruit beers, mock-tails and other such goopy litter (oops!). So going by my fascination of alcohol, it just seemed like a waste of ti
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Grasshopper Visitor!

Posted on Aug 23 2007
We had a visitor in our house just a few days before. It was clutching on the cutain when my kids sighted it. Carefully I had to remove it from there. Both my daughters were fascinated
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The Japanese Tea Ceremony

Posted on Aug 23 2007
I have always been deeply intrigued and fascinated by the Japanese tea ceremony. Therefore, when I first visited Japan four years or so ago, I made it a point to be a part of it. There is something unmistakably austere, something poignant that adds a
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Pune – an asylum of ‘inviolable spirit’ and ‘glamorous spirituality’

Posted on Aug 19 2007
Loosing yourself in a city that is emblematic of the true international cosmopolitanism can truly be magical. More than the escapade it becomes adventuresome. When Pune, located amidst the magical western Ghats, about four hours by rail or road ex Mu
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Meeting a true wine Connoisseur

Posted on Aug 17 2007
Post several wine tasting sessions, solitary romantic interludes with wine for a speaking company, and kind of sitting atop a small little mould of empty bottles as memorabilia that I have made at my home, I think I see myself donning a thinking cap.
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The storm and the salon

Posted on Aug 14 2007
“Sir, would you like a spiky hairdo?” An overenthusiastic guy confidently beamed into my face recently. There was something unmistakably frank in his manner that truncated my usual refusal. And I found myself mumbling, “What does that mean?”
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Will the New Columbus, please stand up? Please stand up?

Posted on Aug 9 2007
Well, this isn’t what Eminem might have said in the famed rap song that caught Britain, as much as the whole world, by a storm, when he sang ‘The Real Slim Shady’, but I am sure someone pretty soon has got to say this. For, the present time has broug
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GOLDEN JUBILEE SEMINAR ON INDIAN PUBLISHING ORGANISED BY NATIONAL BOOK TRUST AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, NEW DELHI, 1-2 AUG 07

Posted on Aug 3 2007
Well, despite a hectic schedule (I am buried till the neck), I consider myself lucky for having squeezed out half a day to attend the Golden jubilee seminar on ‘ Indian publishing – Challenges and prospects in the new millennium’ at the India interna
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Zinfandel and Indian food

Posted on Aug 3 2007
Zinfandel has always been an interesting wine for us Indians to pair with our fare of spicy food. Little wonder therefore that it is gaining on the popularity charts
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Beer v/s Women, Which is better?

Posted on Jul 23 2007
Beer v/s Women, Which is better?
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