The annual art jamboree that is the India Art Fair opened today here in Delhi, on a gorgeous, sunny day. We got there by about 3.30pm, a couple of hours after it had opened, and ended up walking the last stretch, since the traffic was its usual bonkers self. The …
It’s all too easy to complain, isn’t it? We don’t like a restaurant/product/whatever and, quick as a flash, we complain, write a snarky Tripadvisor review, or simply badmouth the company. Good service, however, is a different ballgame altogether. Once the event is over, we always mean to write and say …
Delhi readers, take note! If you haven’t already seen this astounding exhibition at the National Museum, you only have until May 5th to do so. Trust me, it is so fabulous that you will not regret it. I had seen the jewels when they were last exhibited at the Museum …
Come on, Delhites! Wake up! If you haven’t ready been to see “Aladdin”, do so now! Judging by the tragically more-than-half-empty auditorium last night, people are not exactly flocking to see this great musical production. In the short speech of thanks after the show, the director Shruti Sharma specifically thanked …
It is almost 5 years since I was introduced to the best climbing and trekking company in India – there you go, colours nailed firmly to the mast! – and the high standards of WM never cease to amaze. And impress. And reassure. I just returned a few days ago …
Revisiting the Andamans after many, many years, it was as though we were discovering the islands for the first time, so much had things changed. One of the lovely discoveries we made was the trendy Fullmoon Café on Havelock Island, which was not only the eatery for our little hotel, …
In Mumbai last week, I went to the marvellous exhibition “India and the world: A history in nine stories” which is on at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya – or, as it says on their own website “(Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India)”. Although the exhibition will travel …
Finally. Finally I got my act together (thanks, Catriona) and not only visited the Crafts Museum after aeons, but also had lunch in the absolutely adorable Cafe Lota, situated just at the entrance to the museum complex. Been meaning to go there forever, and it was every bit as charming …
Oh dear. What a let down. The story, that of the unlikely friendship between an ageing Queen Victoria and her Indian servant, is not only a delectable one, but the additional fact that Abdul Karim’s diaries were only recently discovered is also thrilling. Add the incomparable Judi Dench to the …
