The not-so-secret diary

Signposts, barriers, information desk, brightly decked shops selling tennis memorabilia and, err... half-price strawberries in M&S. Its got to be the Wimbledon Championships 2012 ! Its heartening to see a spruced up SW19 and the bustling Wimbledon Town Centre. Time to head to Wimbledon Village for some celeb spotting now :D  

I'm sure there are many scatter-brained Indians around (not more than the statistical average one likes to think). However, the title of this post, eye-catching though it may be, does not really refer to 'mad' Indians. For those of you unfamiliar with the Danish language (and for some bizarre reason about 5 adults and 2 youngsters in my non-Danish friend circle seem to be up to speed with this Nordic language!) the title 'Indisk mad' translates as 'Indian food'. I encountered the phrase, not long ago, in picturesque Copenhagen. It never ceases to amaze me that whichever city I visit, some South Asian dude seems to have been there long enough to have a booming curry place. Is there any major capital city left in the world that doesn't  have at least one 'Indian' restaurant?? In most towns these restaurant have adapted themselves to suit the local palette- offering a fusion of dishes from the Indian sub-continent along with flavours popular lo...

There is nothing more disconcerting than finishing a blog post to near-perfection, pressing 'publish' and then being met with 'ERROR'. This is exactly what happened to my post on Mr Pablo Picasso and other fascinating anecdotes from a visit to Tate Britain some time ago. A few weeks have passed since then and I feel somewhat recovered from this blow to start this post again. So here goes: One weekend in late April my friends and I lunched on a medley of Kati Rolls from Soho and headed for an exhibition of Piccaso's work in London at the Tate Britain.The delicious kati rolls deserve a separate blog post to themselves, so I focus here on food for the soul rather than food for the stomach. I hadn't been to Tate Britain for over 5 years. It is the first of the existing four Tate Galleries in UK, set up in 1897 to house a collection of art owned by Henry Tate who had made his fortunes as a sugar refiner. More history about the galleries can be found here . ...