Sat.Aug 26, 2023

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SYBARITIC SINGLE SIPS TEA IN KOLKATA

Mary Gostelow

Escaping from the madding crowds, the Sybaritic Single booked a holiday in the Himalayas. Getting there, however, meant a stopover in Kolkata, one of India’s most underrated cities, with its appalling traffic, a moody monsoon and the glorious Oberoi, the grand old dame of hotels in north-east India. Opened in 1888, this luxury hotel is as much part of historic City of Joy as Mother Theresa.

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FOOD FANTASIES

Mary Gostelow

Never since Tracey Emin’s 1997 ‘artwork’ Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 – which featured the names of all her sex partners – has such a total mess even excited one iota. But when Girlahead saw the vision above, at the end of a family lunch with a pair of divinely active youngsters, it piqued interest. Food is essential in all our lives, everywhere.

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