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Business News > Mint Authors > Vidya Balachander

Vidya Balachander

ARTICLES BY VIDYA BALACHANDER

A view of Dubai’s famous skyline with the Burj Khalifa in the distance. Since the spread of Covid-19, the Burj’s popular observatory, At The Top, has been closed to the public, like other attractions in the city. (Photo: Vidya Balachander)

Quarantine diaries | Dubai: What diversity means in the shadow of a global virus

4 min read . 28 Mar 2020

A view of Dubai’s famous skyline with the Burj Khalifa in the distance. Since the spread of Covid-19, the Burj’s popular observatory, At The Top, has been closed to the public, like other attractions in the city. (Photo: Vidya Balachander)

Quarantine diaries | Dubai: What diversity means in the shadow of a global virus

4 min read . 28 Mar 2020

A fruit and vegetable market in Pettah, Colombo. Photo: iStockphoto

The Sri Lankan porridge makers

7 min read . 19 Jan 2018

A Buddhist temple on an island in Koggala Lake. Photo: Alamy

Travel Special: Sri Lankan hideaway

6 min read . 11 Nov 2017

Anthony Bourdain at a fishing port in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Photo: Courtesy ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’ by David Scott Holloway

Anthony Bourdain: It’s not bad to be the idiot abroad, if you’ve got an open mind

6 min read . 04 Nov 2017

A street vendor in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: iStockphoto

Hungry in Ho Chi Minh City

6 min read . 30 Sept 2017

A cacao farm. Photos: Courtesy Marou Chocolates.

In love with chocolate

6 min read . 28 Jul 2017

Photo: iStockphoto

Tokyo’s best brews

1 min read . 28 Apr 2017

‘Genmaicha’is a deeply toasty tea that derives its aroma from the roasted brown rice that is added to the leaves. Photo: Vidya Balachander

Common man’s cup of tea

1 min read . 28 Apr 2017

Fuchsia Dunlop. Photographs: The Fotocube

Fuchsia Dunlop: It’s bad luck that Chinese cuisine is labelled cheap

6 min read . 17 Mar 2017

David Hall Gallery Cafe.

Eat your art out in Fort Kochi

5 min read . 10 Mar 2017

The bakery in Bengaluru’s Jalahalli area. Photographs: Hemant Mishra/Mint

LJ Iyengar Bakery: Rising from the south

12 min read . 21 Jan 2017

Tunday Kababi. Photo: Remanshu Singh/Mint

Kebab and Korma topped by ‘Kurmura’

7 min read . 02 Dec 2016

Vendors selling fish on the street in Kilinochchi. Photo: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP

So ‘kool’ in Jaffna

6 min read . 09 Jan 2016

Khao soi is seen as the poster child of Chiang Mai cuisine. Photographs from iStock

What to eat if you are in Chiang Mai

6 min read . 05 Jun 2015

The unripe mangosteen fruit.

As simple as ‘sambol’

5 min read . 03 Jan 2015