Raise a toast to Christmas with these cocktail recipes
The pandemic has not dimmed Bengaluru's passion for beer. Back in 2019, in what feels like a different era, we wrote in our cover story on Bengaluru's breweries that “in Bengaluru, beer is the new coffee”. At that time, we reported, the city had 55-60 microbreweries – today, that number has crossed 100 with new outposts of well-known brands and the brewery culture spreading to the slightly more far-flung areas of the ever-expanding metropolis, like Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout, Electronic City and Kanakpura Road (till now best known for hosting the headquarters of the Art Of Living Foundation). Mattoo has published six books, including The Mystic And The Lyric in 2019, where she has translated the four women poets of Kashmir (14th-18th centuries): Lal Ded, Habba Khatoon, Rupa Bhawani and Arnimal. Her…