![]() ![]() Thakrar wanted to build something beautiful: “I want to feel a sort of mood when the music and the typefaces and the design and the colour of the wall and the pictures and the food and tastes and people rushing around and the lighting all come together to just make me feel like I want to be here.” ![]() Thakrar and his cofounders felt there was more to say about the food and culture – specifically paying homage to the food, architecture, vibe and culture of Bombay’s Irani cafés to communicate something fresh about India (which is eloquently covered in his book). But when you know someone well over centuries, the relationship can turn into cliches and I think Brits would think of India in terms of Bollywood, cricket, curry houses, days of the Raj, Maharaja – those sort of cliches." Pointing to a copy of William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy, which recounts the rise of the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, Thakrar explains that the deep history between the two countries “left us with a feeling that we know India well.
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