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We are thrilled with the response we are getting to Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi. Our goal is to bring a luxury dining experience consistent with international standards of excellence to the expanding and discerning clientele in India. ”
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. ”
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics. ”
I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me. ”
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative. ”
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now, we forget the opposition to it. ”
Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet. ”
In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob. ”
There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat. ”
In the midst of global recession, in the face of uncertainty about what's going to happen next, film looks for inspiration to real people. ”