Archives: '09 Issue 12

Three days, four meals a day plus ‘tastings’, unlimited wine, the topmost restaurants and bars. Heaven? Try pleasurable torture. Verve experiences a food-athon called the 2009 Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival and returns pleased, disturbed and afraid to use the weighing scale

From a young bride who had trouble making tea to one of Asia’s foremost vegan lifestyle experts, she counts the cooking of Buddhist monks and her own roots in Indian vegetarianism as prime inspirations. Verve chats with master chef Hema Parekh

The Oberoi Patisserie and Delicatessen in Delhi will delight the gourmet in you

Tune in to Amitabh Bhattacharya, Bollywood’s edgy new wordsmith

Priyanka Chopra sure knows how to liven up any setting with her sunbeam smile, her enviable energy and her hard-to-match dance moves. Verve tracks the much-in-demand superstar and steals moments during the Verve photo shoot to get a pulse on what gets this gal’s party mojo going...

Curator Jasmine Shah Varma finds new ways to speak to the art market in undulating times

Masaba Gupta, not yet out of fashion school, dreams in design

Multifaceted Nida Mahmood has the makings of a design maverick