Cooking isn’t Rocket Science, a 40-episode cookery series on British food, will air on NDTV’s soon-to-be-launched Lifestyle channel in India. British food has never been considered gourmet – in fact, popular perception is that it’s quite the opposite.

But the show’s host, Manju Malhi, one of Britain’s popular chefs, reveals that there’s more to British food than the standard fish and chips. Reputed for being a unique cross-over gourmet, Manju unveils her tempting recipes for bangers and mash, lamb chops, a typical English breakfast, muffins, the Queen’s tea, mango crumble, baked beans balti, couscous salad, the Scottish dessert Cranachan, and a lot more. It will teach viewers how to prepare classic British dishes with readily accessible local ingredients in India.

Manju Malhi won the BBC Food and Drink’s competition in 1999, and cooked with Antony Worrall Thompson on BBC2 and was invited back a second time. Her ‘Simply Indian’ series was aired on the Taste Network in early 2001 and award-winning book Brit Spice was published in 2002 by Penguin Books.

The annual London Film Festival has announced that Wes Anderson’s film, The Darjeeling Limited, will screen as their Closing Night Gala on Thursday 1 November.

The film stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as three brothers who set off on a train voyage across India in an attempt to bond and reconnect. However their ‘spiritual journey’ veers rapidly off-course, and the trio find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer and a laminating machine…