How About An Asiad For Chennai?
India’s main interest in the Asian Games, which have just opened in Guangzhou, seems to be whether it can repeat its Commonwealth Games medal haul in the face of strong competition from the Chinese....
View ArticleThanks to French humour, here's best of British food
As London gears up, it is worth remembering that they might owe the honour, in some small part, to the well-known awfulness of English food. This goes back to Singapore 2005 when the International...
View ArticleGaram Masala: Pretty Much a Curry Games
The Olympics, it’s fairly obvious, are only partly about sports. Almost as important is the attention they bring to the host country and city, often signaling a change in their global status. Rome in...
View ArticleGaram Masala – the Olympics and food (1)
[Even before the Sochi Winter Olympics started a story surfaced about how the US team was being denied the yoghurt that was part of its diet. A shipment of Chobani yogurt which was meant for the team...
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