A Curated Guide to Slow Living
Beauty and fashion with a conscience
I’d visited Italy a few years ago, where the slow food movement took shape. This is an abridged version of a piece I had done for Elle, which appeared in the magazine in 2011. The Slow Food Movement has billowed into our sculleries from Italy, giving …
Food, like faith, is a saviour in Benaras. It is the third time in less than three days that we have alighted at Girja Ghar Chowk, opposite to St. Thomas Church. The city’s Catholic centerpiece is the colour of a pale mango, with white stripes …
I’ve literally shopped till I dropped in Kochi. I was lucky to have picked up the spices and tea in Munnar on an earlier trip, so in Kochi, the airport spice store came to the rescue. Shopping in Munnar or Thekkady is preferable for …
There are no doors. Or, none that are closed. It is evening when we make our way to Fort Kochi, the oldest European settlement in India, as the guidebooks say. Our hotel, just at the curve of Napier Road, is a stately colonial building that’s …
