Nostalgia with Ranveer Brar: “I was the first earning member of the family after my father”

The chef talks about wanting to cook for 24 hours a day, wearing baggy pants and loose shirts and his increasing love for khichdi with time

Where were you in terms of your career?

Ranveer Brar at 22 (inset), and at 43 (above)

During a weekend at the Ki monastery in Spiti Valley

Ranveer sitting on his first bike, a Bajaj Caliber

Preparing his first fish fillet; (inset) during a school picnic at Bara Imambara when he was in HAL School, Lucknow

Working at his favourite kitchen corner, the pastry section at The Claridges, Delhi

With his four-year-old dog Bo in USA when Ranveer was 27