Imagine this in sepia tones: A middle-class Maharashtrian family huddles together for a meal and everybody is in raptures over the mother’s garlic chutney. Every time the garlic chutney was served, it drew “oohs” and “aahs” from the extended family and friends. The enterprising son, Vijay Pathare, a mechanical engineer by training, then felt that this garlic chutney tasted so good that it...
It is hot. It is red. It is burning. With 400 known varieties around the world, chilli is the dominant spice in any Indian’s daily diet, thanks to Vasco da Gama.
Everyone who remembers elementary school history knows that Vasco da Gama discovered the spice route to India. It is never mentioned that he brought chillies along, thereby adding awesome firepower to the culinary variety of...
Reza Mohammed does not fit your normal idea of a banker wearing a pin-striped, buttoned-down shirt, spewing financial jargon at you. He does not have a 9-to-5 job, nor a stunning wife who drives a class ‘C’ Mercedes. But he lends money like a banker. And he does it at 30%, inflation or no inflation, RBI rules or no RBI rules; and manages to collect a lakh or more per day in equated daily...
