I’ve been cooking dishes inspired by bits of BBC Food, Masterchef Australia and Gordon Ramsay for a while now and thought it’s about time I shared them. This one takes just over an hour to prepare from the market to the plate if you’re in a hurry on a Friday afternoon. The glaze could have…
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You may have heard of the 828 meter tall Burj Khalifa that stands in Downtown Dubai, but what you probably haven’t heard of is a freshly veneered jaliboot that goes by the same name just a few kilometers due west. I happened to be strolling through Dubai’s Jumeirah beach when I came across this magnificent…
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Musafir.com was founded in August 2007 and branded over a three month period from December 2007 to February 2008. Although some brands begin by identifying their structure and then hunt for a name that fits the profile, we jumped right into word formation exercises. I began by running through a list of every possible combination…
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that I ought to have had my photograph pasted alongside the entry for ‘workaholic’ in the Oxford dictionary years ago. We compete with our classmates as children, burn midnight oil trying to outwit entire campuses as teenagers and bask in the glory of eighteen Watt fluorescent tubes…
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Fish curries have always been my Everest. It’s easy to crack a tandoori Chicken because there are a dozen recipes out there and you can always buy a powder off the shelf if you’re lazy. However, when it comes to Mangalorean fish curries, the best recipes are often locked away in tattered Konkani cookbooks or…
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When wine.com and business.com sold for a record-breaking $2.9 and $7.5 million, respectively, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a growing number of people saw an investment opportunity which we’ve come to know as cybersquatting. In fact, a brand-jacking report released by MarkMonitor this spring shows that the practice has grown by approximately 40%…
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In most parts of North India, you’ll come across some interesting family names which have roots dating back to their first ancestors’ professions, such as Screwvala, which literally means screw vendor. However, back down in South India, I was content with the fact that our names didn’t mean much; or at least that’s what I…
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Even as children back in grade six, we knew there was something special about the swoosh or those three stripes we found on our desks. They were brands that inspired. Brands that inspired you to make every last segment of pencil lead count, as your chemistry teacher turned to the periodic table on page 345.
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They say there’s nothing like a bit of free publicity, and what better way than to invite a comedian (slash) filmmaker of CNN repute to live in your apartment while his house is being fumigated? Well, that’s exactly what an IKEA store in New Jersey did. In return, your guest gets to play laser tag…
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The freehold, properties and classifieds sections alone accounted for an average of 330 half-size pages from Sunday to Thursday last week. If you factor in their circulation base of 103,163 and for argument’s sake, assume that half of those people have no means of looking up these listings on the internet, you end up with…
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Albert Dias 