Amit Chaudhuri

The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.