Deep Adhya, PhD

Like the horns of a bovine creature rose the wing tips of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and I sat inside the ruminant securely fastened to my seat. It was an elegant sight outside the window, but not so much inside. No offence, but my journey from London to New Delhi on Air India had a mood of riding a tractor ploughing through a dusty farm during the harvesting season. I can’t quite explain the whirlpool of emotions I felt during those eight hours, but I did feel like they were being tumbled in a washing machine. As I sat exasperated, I observed that the atmosphere of the plane was alien to my fellow travellers who were being served with gourmet food, wine and reclining seats, while all they wanted was a heap of rice and a flat surface to sit on and spread their limbs. Everywhere I looked, I found proud Indian sons of the soil. They were the grass-root simpletons who looked like they loved the smell of the earth more than the recycled air of the plane. They were the v...

Yelp: http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/patio-london Eastern European food is not something that is easily available in stores. Neither are there Eastern European restaurant chains and takeaways. In short, Eastern European cuisine has not caught up in our imagination. Polish, one of the more famous Eastern European cuisine, has a distinct niche in the world, much like Italian art films of the 50s and 60s. It was easy to find this obscure restaurant, thanks to the internet. I would have never found it, if it was not listed on food websites and reviewed by online journals. Although we are in the habit of blaming the internet for all the bad things it has done to our brain, without it I would have missed out on trying the food from this little gem of a restaurant. If not for the internet, I would have missed out on trying out so many other little holes in the wall too over the last few years. The Patio Restaurant , a very unassuming name, and quite hard to find on Google, has an...