Posts Tagged ‘travel’

By kamla bhatt • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, New Delhi, New York, People

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Madhur Jaffrey , a well-known actress & author of several cooks books & TV shows talks about her autobirograhy: Climbing The Mango Trees.
In this autobiography she paints a wonderful picture of her childhood in India. Madhur grew up in a large “joint family,” in Delhi during the 1930s and 1940s. So in the book she [...]


By kamla bhatt • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, India, People

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Naomi Duguid is a lawyer turned cook/writer. Along with her husband Jeffrey Alford she has written 6 wonderful cook books and they won the James Beard award for two of their books.
Their latest book is Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China and has won rave reviews for mapping the food [...]


By kamla bhatt • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Business & Tech, Diaspora, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

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Can Jet Airways become one of the top 5 global airlines under the stewardship of Naresh Goyal? Yes it can, and it has the right person with the right vision and attitude to make it happen says N. Sunderaj aka Raj, a seasoned aviation executive and a former Vice President at Jet Airways. But, [...]


By kamla bhatt • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, People

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Pico Iyer is a well-known writer and essayist, who has written 9 books and numerous articles and essays in various magazines and publications.
Pico wrote his first book Video Night in Kathmandu about 20 years ago and still features as one of the top must-read books. He is also the author of The Lady and the [...]