Featured September 11, 2023 London’s charm is a thing of the past The historic metropolis is undeniably vibrant, but are we being too charitable in showering it...
September 27, 2013 Exhibition on Lata and my unpublished notes September 27, 2013: Today evening I attended the media preview of an exhibition on Lata Mangeshkar by Snehasis Chatterjee, an ardent fan of Lata ji and a collector of Lata memorabilia. …
September 24, 2013 Welcome Helen LaFave September 24, 2013: The last week end I had some respite and wasn’t occupied so much as on the earlier ones. On Saturday evening I hosted a dinner reception at …
September 22, 2013 Thanks and good bye Jeff On the Friday before last I got a text from Jeff saying his flight was postponed and we could meet over coffee on Saturday. Jeffrey K Reneau, Director of American …
September 21, 2013 At the film making workshop September 21, 2013: On Wednesday evening (Sept 18) I attended the closing ceremony of Lights, Camera Workshop a two-day film making workshop at the British Council by Daniel Smith in partnership with Education …
September 17, 2013 Taking things forward September 17, 2013: The last weekend wasn’t a very busy one. I went to Kolkata Zoo on Friday to finalise the formalities of adopting the yet-to-be-named youngest Royal Bengal tigress …
September 15, 2013 India’s wildlife genocide Last week apart from the headlines of Narendra Modi, Delhi rape case and US DolIar, I came across a small piece of news in the media that one of the …
September 13, 2013 At Soumitra da’s art exhibition September 13, 2013: I was busy last week for a number of events that were lined up one after another. Yesterday was the inauguration of “Forms Within” the exhibition of …
September 10, 2013 Recipe Rendezvous takes off September 10, 2013: From yesterday morning we started another series with t2 named “Recipe Rendezvous”. After a very successful series of Authors Afternoon and Tete-a-Tea, this new series is in collaboration with Madhu …
September 8, 2013 Raising standards For many years now, I have been staying at various five star properties at home and abroad, including some of the biggest hotel chains in the world. I have been …
September 6, 2013 Satyanweshi premier September 6, 2013: Monday onwards, the current week, I have been occupied in office work. It is mostly desk work during the daytime and various overseas conference calls in the …
September 1, 2013 Krishna’s holiday leela! Last week I was in Jaipur scheduled to host a dinner at the Polo Club on August 28 evening. Then I came to know that Wednesday was Janmashtami and hence a …
August 30, 2013 Pandit ji’s `home coming’ August 30, 2013: I returned from Jaipur yesterday. The Jaipur trip was mainly for the second Prabha Khaitan Foundation Memorial lecture held at the Marriott on the evening of August 28, …
