Cockney Curry

Mind games
I8217;m intrigued by an invitation from the general manager of Saab UK, Parveen Batish, who is about to unveil details of his brainchild at a private lunch later this week. The 8216;Move Your Mind8217; forums, which he will start in London, are apparently debates and networking events which will bring together a wide assortment of British Asians to 8216;8216;engage, enrich and excite8221;. 8216;8216;This will be a forum that will move your mind,8217;8217; promises Mr Batish. Given that the lunch is taking place at Nobu, the all-star Japanese restaurant on Park Lane where Boris Becker fathered his love child in the cleaning cupboard, moving the mind is all that8217;s needed. Back with further details in the next column once the mystery is revealed.

Princess in the kitchen
Princess Padmaja Kumari Mewar enjoyed getting stuck into hotel work in New York. At the plush Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, to be precise. 8216;8216;The best thing about doing guest relations for high net-worth-individuals is that they expect such a personalised service that you get to work really closely with very interesting people,8217;8217; beamed the princess when I met her at a food festival in London8217;s Chor Bizarre restaurant in Mayfair. She had flown from Manhattan that morning to open the Mewari food festival, one of the first such events to introduce Mewari cuisine to Londoners. The food festival runs till mid-December. 8216;8216;Londoners are crazy about Indian food,8217;8217; said Chor Bizzare owner Rohit Khatta and promised, 8216;8216;We8217;ve only just started.8221;