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TLC partners with ‘Taste Of Mumbai’
MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel TLC partners with Taste Of Mumbai to celebrate great taste with cuisine, wines, live demos, food, drink and much more.
To be held in India for the first time, the event is part of the Taste Festivals held across the world. Taste has produced over 56 festivals in 20 cities around the world.
In eight years, Taste Festivals has served over one million foodie enthusiasts.
The festival will be held from 22-24 February 2013 at Marine Drive in partnership with American Express. To offer a delicious experience, TLC has launched an exciting contest for the viewers based on world cuisine. Viewers can participate by sending their answers via sms or logging on to www.tlcindia.co.in and win passes to Taste Of Mumbai.
Discovery South Asia senior VP, GM Rahul Johri said, “TLC‘s partnership with Taste of Mumbai is a natural fit as both aim to celebrate great taste. Bringing in the best of the food world, the festival will be a gastronomical delight.”
The event will not only present world famous chefs and top restaurants but also have interactive cooking and eating sessions. The festival will feature some of the famous international culinary experts such as Alain Fabr?gues, famous for producing the finest of French Cuisine with a strong Australian influence; Margot Janse, incredibly talented Executive Chef from South Africa; Ian Kittichai, culinary specialist who has international hotels, restaurants, and food companies, Jehangir Mehta, Vivek Singh and Indian chefs such as Ritu Dalmia and Vicky Ratnani.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
