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A Culinary Legend Meets Crossword Puzzles

Dawn to dusk, they bond over crosswords

Delighted to share my one year old MG Mini Community - Home to India's largest Mini Crossword Community is today covered in Times of India !! Great mo...

मंगेश मुंबईकर घोगरे (Mangesh Mumbaikar Ghogre)

'थिंक महाराष्ट्र डॉट कॉम'च्या सर्व हितचिंतकांना नव्या वर...

Can Crosswords Be More Inclusive?

Root around in the alphanumeric soup of the U.S. visa system for long enough and you'll discover the EB-1A, sometimes known as the Einstein visa. Amon...

This I-banker moved to the US on a permanent 'Einstein' visa—for his crossword skills

Mangesh Ghogre, former executive director and head of equity capital markets at Nomura India, made it to the US on an Einstein visa, given for 'extrao...

How crosswords made Mangesh Ghogre America's 'Einstein' - Times of India

It all began with him and his classmates picking up The Times of India crossword in the hope that it would improve their vocabulary and help them crac...

60 Seconds With Mangesh Ghogre

A chat with one of the New York Times Crossword constructors. Best gift you have ever been given, material or otherwise? I remember I gifted myself a ...

Gandhi at 150: Icon immortalised in special New York Times crossword, made by Indian

Investment banker Mangesh Ghogre went from a boy with limited vocabulary and no exposure to American culture to becoming the only Indian to have publi...

This Boy From Mumbai Became the World's Unlikeliest Crossword King

As a teenager, Mangesh Ghogre was obsessed with decoding puzzles filled with foreign references. Now he's the only non-American to ever create them fo...

Letter from Mangesh Ghogre [35th Annual ACPT, 2012]

A crossword enthusiast from India, Mangesh Ghogre, is coming to the ACPT this year as an official. It's his first trip ever to the U.S. And to my memo...