

The aircraft took flight from Santacruz airport on Jto reach London via Cairo and Geneva. The plane that made history was called Lockheed Constellation, an Air India aircraft that also earned the moniker, Malabar Princess. Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the country’s first international flight.


Some dates draw in nostalgia more than the others. What’s not to like about sweltering summers in India? History hoversĪ model of Lockheed Constellation. The drink transforms into a cesspool of comfort around soaked vanilla sponge cake, sabza seeds and orange jelly bits. Not into daaru? Try the jigar thanda (in pic, left), Madurai’s summer cooler with nannari root extract, milk and almond gum. Its rum kick comes from the liquor-laced mascarpone. Soaked in espresso, the Bengali mithai turns fit to serve the Goan uncle from Mapusa. The coffee rasgulla sundae reminded us a bit of TBC’s rum-drenched gulab jamun spliced like a bagel, but also brought back memories of hot afternoons spent licking ice cream off Korean spoons at Marine Drive’s Nataraj. Genius! The other section on the menu that deserves your attention for its unorthodox trials is dessert. The potato/aloo/batata was replaced with chilled sea bass cured with green mango chutney, and carrying the unmistakable zing of kairi chhunda that Gujaratis so love to mop up their thepla with. The sev puri platter sits on a dry lentils bed resembling a gravel garden But it was with the body of the dish that the chef threw us a googly. The nylon sev topped with a scarlet sliver of Bhavnagri chilli crunched between our teeth. We broke into an evil laugh on tasting a crisp sev puri, Mumbai’s hot-selling street food, fresh off Lower Parel restobar The Bombay Canteen’s (TBC) summer menu. We are talking paneer patra-ni-macchi, beetroot burger and soya chaap. For far too long, we have watched sacred non-vegetarian eats get ‘un-meated’. Most importantly, do not try to guess a solution or you can make the puzzle unsolvable and wreck your brain with something impossible.This diarist calls it the revenge of the meatarians.
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Evil Sudoku Puzzles are made for those players who are extremely confident in their logic skills and believe to be experts by now.
