My cooking trips to India have been an incredible experience, I have cooked at the Hyatt in Kolkata and the Park Hyatt in Hyderabad, both totally different in so many ways. Kolkata is hard-core India, horrendous traffic and a real culture shock to any first time visitor.
Hyderabad is a lot more relaxed, you don’t get that overwhelming feeling that you have arrived in complete mad house. Both cities are beautiful in their own right, but different.