Kalyan Karmakar

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Baara haandi & Sancha Ice cream at Mumbai's Bohri Mohalla (9 votes)
Posted 15 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Notes from the Mumbai Tweetup at 5Spice (5 votes)
Posted 15 years ago under Offbeat > Hobbies
Mumbai's Chor Bazar (13 votes)
Posted 15 years ago under LifeStyle > Travel
The Udipi Delights of Fort Mumbai. Swagath Refreshment (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
A walk down Kolkata's legendary Park Street (25 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
A story from Mumbai's oldest Parsi Colony (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Offbeat > Love & Relationships
My experiments with vegetarianism (16 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Parsi Dhansak recipe (9 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
The lost world of Irani Cafes... Ideal Corner (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
New Martin Hotel...a Colaba institution (18 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Romancing Vintage Bombay on the Parsi Bew year. Cafe Samovar (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Mumbai Indiblogger Meet... The Politically Incorrect Review (32 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Mumbai Food Bloggers Meet (24 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Chicken soup for breakfast (27 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Offbeat > Hobbies
Following the Portoguese food trail at Malacca (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
My discovery of Penang begins (20 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
The world's cheesiest and easiest mushroom recipe (33 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Mumbai's Irani Cafes (27 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Quick fix raita recipe (22 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink
Indigo Deli, Palladium Review (11 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under LifeStyle > Food & Drink

Latest posts by Kalyan Karmakar

Where will you be twenty years from now?
A taste of Mumbai It struck me the other day that it has been about twenty years since the time I took my first steps, albeit unwittingly, towards moving into Mumbai. I had been recruited by a market research agency in Kolkata from campus back then. I joined my new office once the MBA course was ove...
Posted on 9 August 2017 | 1:52 am
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Queue-spreading because its spelling is the least of our problem with queues
Scene 1: I had gone to pay local taxes at a government office in Bandra a few days back. I was directed to a table where there was no-one else waiting. I went up to the officer at the desk and submitted our papers. He keyed in the details in to his computer. The results flashed immediately. I gave o...
Posted on 14 July 2017 | 7:20 pm
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Reaching out to the future for answers
Yesterday I came out of a meeting about a new media vehicle which is yet to establish itself in India. The possibilities sounded interesting though. The owner of the company told me about the growth of this media in the US. I listened to his reasons for believing that it has potential in India too.
Posted on 11 July 2017 | 2:15 pm
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Open again
I had closed both Faraway Diaries and Finely Chopped yesterday. I have opened them again. Here's why...
Posted on 29 June 2010 | 10:04 am
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A trip to grandma's for the the summer hols ... Literati Bookshop and Cafe, North Goa
Some of our friends had told us about a place called Literati near Baga at North Goa. We were told that it was a cafe and a bookshop.K and I went to the beach on our second day at Goa. I was carrying a stomach bug. Couldn't take the sun. So we decided to check out Literati the next day and have brea...
Posted on 12 February 2010 | 8:23 pm
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KL Strikes Back
I visited KL in 2006. I was mighty unimpressed. Wrote about the same here.Now one could always argue that this was a superficial outsiders un-researched take. But then that's what this blog is meant to be. A sum up of first impressions. I was actually at KL for more than a week. First for a conferen...
Posted on 5 February 2010 | 2:07 pm
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Kalyan Karmakar's latest posts on IndiVine

Baara haandi & Sancha Ice cream at Mumbai's Bohri Mohalla (9 votes)

Notes from the Mumbai Tweetup at 5Spice (5 votes)

Mumbai's Chor Bazar (13 votes)

The Udipi Delights of Fort Mumbai. Swagath Refreshment (20 votes)

A walk down Kolkata's legendary Park Street (25 votes)

A story from Mumbai's oldest Parsi Colony (20 votes)

My experiments with vegetarianism (16 votes)

Parsi Dhansak recipe (9 votes)

The lost world of Irani Cafes... Ideal Corner (20 votes)

New Martin Hotel...a Colaba institution (18 votes)

Romancing Vintage Bombay on the Parsi Bew year. Cafe Samovar (20 votes)

Mumbai Indiblogger Meet... The Politically Incorrect Review (32 votes)

Mumbai Food Bloggers Meet (24 votes)

Chicken soup for breakfast (27 votes)

Following the Portoguese food trail at Malacca (20 votes)

My discovery of Penang begins (20 votes)

The world's cheesiest and easiest mushroom recipe (33 votes)

Mumbai's Irani Cafes (27 votes)

Quick fix raita recipe (22 votes)

Indigo Deli, Palladium Review (11 votes)

Latest posts by Kalyan Karmakar

Latest posts by Kalyan Karmakar