What does a bar look like when it behaves less like a bar and more like a piece of speculative fiction? At Delhi’s, Vasant Vihar’s AABBCC, recently named among Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2026, guests climb three floors that function like chapters in a story. A laboratory where ingredients are deconstructed, a ocktail bar where…
Just moments before I formally started writing this story, news came out revealing that two agricultural products, namely Unjha cumin and fennel, from Gujarat have received GI tags. Today, India has GI tagged products abounding but before 2004, there wasn’t even a single one. “Geographical Indication” is what the tag is, a certification given to…
What were two of India’s most celebrated bartenders doing at Kolkata’s Lake Market on a humid July afternoon? One was foraging through bunches of herbs, feeling the leaves between his fingers before lifting them to his nose. The other had wandered off towards a mountain of jackfruit, hefting one into his palms, inspecting its weight,…
