Today’s New York Times features a puff piece on Indian entrepreneur Sunil Bharti Mittal tooting his horn about his recent deal with Wal-Mart to set up a wholesale distribution system. Amidst all his prattle about the cold chain, the trucking, storage etc, what caught our attention in the NYT story was Sunil Mittal’s juvenile boast […]
Journalist and food critic Chitrita Banerji has written an interesting op-ed piece on Calcutta in today’s New York Times that’s not all too favorable to Mother Teresa. Banerji takes issue with the media, the Catholic Church and above all Mother Teresa for reducing Calcutta into a caricature of poverty, starvation and suffering without any mention of […]
Domino’s Pizza is expanding in India big time. The pizza chain, which opened its first Indian store in 1996 and has 156 outlets now, wants to have 500 outlets by 2010-11. The U.S. Pizza company plans to invest Rs 350 crore to support its expansion, reports ET. Domino’s India is looking at an additional 60 […]
Indian restaurants are choc-a-block in New York (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island). Mysore Masala Dosa, Chicken Manchurian, Lamb Roganjosh, Punjabi Chole, Dhokla, American Chop Suey, Chicken Chettinad, Bisibele Bath, Pongal…whatever be your fancy you can get ’em all here. Folks, there must be at least 225 Indian restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. Flushing Ganesh […]
Two bomb blasts killed 40 people and injured over 80 on Saturday evening at the Lumbini amusement park and a food stall in the Kothi area in the South Indian city of Hyderabad, capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh. The blasts are said to have occured around 7:40PM local time within minutes of each other. […]
To the list of Chinese pet food, Chinese toys, Chinese furniture, Chinese laptops, Chinese this and Chinese that, American consumers will soon add Chinese cars. Chinese car maker Chery is expected to hit the American market by 2009 and will surely kill what’s left of the struggling U.S. auto industry. You see, Chery workers in […]