Faqiri Muamalaat

Pamela Timms — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:02:26 +0000

EOiD trips are always an adventure, but the vegetarian excursions are a particular delight. Not because we’re all militant meat-haters. Quite the reverse in fact. However, despite the fact that most of us believe a meal without meat is no meal at all, our leader, Hemanshu, is committed to providing an equal opportunities dining experience.

Karim’s

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:39:15 +0000

It’s been written about ad nauseum. Throw a stone, and you’re liable to hit a foodie in whom it inspires a religious zeal the Imam at the Jama Masjid next door would envy. If you hear my friend Nishant talk about it, you’d think he’d been to [...]

Sancho’s

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

There seems to be a terrible paucity of good Mexican food joints in Delhi.

One of the options that has been around for a while is Rodeo’s. Frankly, I haven’t even tried their stuff yet, but that’s only because I keep hearing very mixed reviews about the place.

A week ago, I was in the [...]

Afghan Food at Lajpat Nagar

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:52:51 +0000

I heart EOiD.

It was just a few weeks ago, on December 21 to be precise, while making a plan for Kabuli food in Ballimaran, that it suddenly struck me — surely there were other Afghan restaurants in Delhi? A little googling indicated the existence of such a place in Lajpat Nagar, but there was no [...]

Rajouri Garden of Five Senses

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:25:15 +0000

Late last week, nine of us EOiD adventurers turned our noses westwards, and headed to Rajouri Garden.

I’d been looking for an excuse to go there for a while now — I kept hearing about the Giani’s ice-cream parlour there, but couldn’t enthuse myself to travel such long distances just for desserts. Then a few [...]

Iftar at Jama Masjid

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:34 +0000

It must be the age.

I can’t think of any other reason it took me a whole fortnight to figure out why I’d been looking at the world with such a jaundiced eye of late. Life had been toodling along quite nicely, until an EOiD plan in mid-September to visit

Kallu Nihari

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:38:44 +0000

Talk about Nihari in Delhi, and somehow the name of Kallu Ustad invariably crops up. Rahul Verma mentions him in a column, the occasional website includes his fare in one of its old Delhi walks, and every other nihari lover counts him in [...]

La Crème de Sadar

Hemanshu Kumar — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:48:28 +0000

Every once in a while, someone comes up to me and conspiratorially recommends what must by now be the worst-kept secret in South Delhi’s “offbeat” food scene — Khan Chacha’s kabab corner in Khan Market. Frankly, I find said place more than a tad over-rated — the kabab rolls tend to be all shmushed up [...]

The Metropolis

Hemanshu Kumar — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:58:19 +0000

I first read about The Metropolis in a rather eye-catchingly titled Rahul Verma article last year: “Manali in Paharganj”. And when the man himself recommended it as one of the best places for continental food, we wasted no time in organizing an EOiD community expedition to Paharganj.

I have taken several friends to [...]

M. I. Meat Suppliers

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:48:30 +0000

For reasons I myself cannot comprehend, I recently decided to take the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) NET exam, a cockeyed morally offensive mind-numbing scandal of a paper that deserves to be thrown out.

But on the plus side, it gave me the occasion to revise some of the basic concepts in economics that had been [...]

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