Word: modishly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even if a passage to India isn't for the fainthearted, the country is fast becoming a hot spot for the jet set. A growing global awareness of Indian culture--thanks to offerings like Bend It Like Beckham, the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri and modish curry cuisine (not to mention Indian software and telephone expertise)--has raised the subcontinent's profile and put it firmly on the traveler's map. The number of foreign visitors to India last year rose 16.5%, to 2.75 million, and the World Travel & Tourism Council predicts India's tourism industry will grow by 7.9% over...
...have gone through just this of late, with formerly trendy Sanlitun giving way to the lakeside neighborhood of Houhai as the city's favored leisure zone. While Sanlitun degenerates into a graceless quarter of leather-jacketed touts and identical bars, Houhai is luring yuppie dollars with rather more modish venues...
...look is pure Flintstones: walls of boulders, solid-wood tables and menus printed on laminated sections of tree. There's no cutlery either: you rip at great hunks of meat and swab it up with nan the size of a trash can lid. But don't let this modish coarseness fool you: there's nothing back-to-basics about the cooking. The tandoori jhinga?four colossal marinated prawns flavored with yogurt, red chilies, turmeric and garam masala?is sensational. And the sikandari raan, a whole leg of spring lamb soaked in vinegar, cinnamon and cumin and cooked in the tandoor...
...huge ceilings and fine carpets. There are three great restaurants and a huge bar that packs in the young on weekends. But the truly chic should head for The Manor, an 18-room boutique hotel set in a secluded southern garden in Friend's Colony. The owners have combined modish veneer, glass and low lighting with traditional Indian textiles and a hint of colonial style to produce India's first designer hotel. The menu alone, featuring exotic smoothies, mango salads and even lobster, is worth a stay. For reservations, call...
...book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly false notion has produced a suite of modern ills, from modish parenting methods to the architecture of the Carpenter Center...