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CONTENTS

6 CALENDAR

Which events to check out in Bangkok this month.
8 Fashion

Graceful Glam: How to stay stylishly-demure this Navratri season.

6 10 Munching
Fortune Flavours the Bold: Zuma Bangkok’s ebisu lunch menu is worthy of its
divine namesake.
12 Trending Now

Dream Teams: Prominent chefs and members of the community reveal which
collaborations from restaurants in India and Thailand they’d like to see.
16 Covered On the cover, Sumati Huber smiles for the

Outside the Script: On the eve of her first published novel, author and editor
10 Sumati Huber talks about rewriting the norms of being Thai-Indian. camera at her beautiful home.
18 what’s up, Bangkok? ISSUE 166 | OCTOber 2024

All the latest offerings in Bangkok you need to know about.
CHAIRMAN
Ram Sachdev
20 IN FOCUS PUBLISHERS
The Sound of Now: Setting the tone with promising young musician, Aryan
Singh Thakral. Raghav Sachdev
Raksha Sachdev
22 Power and Protection: To fast or not to fast? Community members reveal their ASSOCIATE EDITOR
12 Spill the Chai
Aiden Jewelle Gonzales
Navratri traditions, and how strictly they follow them in this day and age. . SENIOR WRITER
24 Masala Recommends Mahmood Hossain

Spooktacular Season: This month isn’t complete without our list of must-

watch horror films. JUNIOR WRITERS
Ayush Madan
26 Bling, Baaja, Baraat Grace Clarke
ART DIRECTOR
Wedding Florals: How to pick flowers that reflect style and tradition.
16 Jan Lorenz
28 Nama-Slay! SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Alend Razavi
Sumati Huber gives her spook-tacular take on scary things Indians have to
deal with. GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Watchara Teeracharuwan
30 Cash Course With AtuL PHOTOGRAPHER AND
Atul Sethi cautions us to look under the hood if you are being offered a
dreamy bargain. VIDEOGRAPHERS
Thananat Thanaphirat
32 Darshan Mehta explores how modern consumers are redefining value by WEBMASTER
20 Getting to Aha!

Jinn Thapsakul
shifting from products to experiences. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
34 Musings of an Aunty Prying Open the Secret Ingredients MANAGER
Gurdev Singh
in Fast Food
Dolly Koghar laments the necessary changes that wreak havoc on her aged SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Carmel Mission
and easily-distracted grey matter, while giving her generation’s childhood
memories of the spooky season. (page 35). MASALA PRESENTER
36 Our pick of the most binge-worthy releases on the top streaming platforms PROJECT COORDINATOR
22 Net-flicks and Chill Geetan Kanwar

available in Thailand. Nikki Kumar
Sustainably Stylish
Aparna Sharma gives advice on how you can thrift luxury bags and leather
products, and restore them.
24 40 Hot Shots

Happenings captured through the Masala lens.

@MasalaOnline
EMBRACING THE POUR OF CREATIVITY @masalamagazine

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Here’s to celebrating the downpour of creativity and finding security in its flow. Enjoy this issue of Masala Lite! Another quality publication of Premier Print & Products Co., Ltd.
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