Andrew Josef Hyderabad is fortunate to have hotels that inspire the imagination, from Taj Falaknuma’s majesty to the Westin’s panache, but deep in Gachibowli, bang in the Financial District, lies nestled a hotel that captures the natural beauty of Hyderabad in all its rocky splendour. For reasons I can scarcely fathom, Ista is Hyderabad’s best-kept [...]
Andrew Josef The thing about Thai food is that everyone thinks they can make it, but very few can do so with any measure of talent. The city is full of green and red curries that taste like they were found in a puddle; few, if any, master the art and complexity that epitomises Thai [...]
Andrew Josef Some restaurants in Hyderabad have been around for so long they seem to fade into memory and then swiftly out of it. Ofen, in Banjara Hills is one unfortunate place. I have eaten there four or five times and the food has always been the right side of good. Their continental cuisine far [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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