The gala dinner Prime Minister Modi hosted for BRICS leaders was a separate, centrally organised affair at Bharat Mandapam, the summit venue, run through the official arrangements for the leaders' programme rather than by any single outside hotel. Its menu featured khandvi mille-feuille, khumb galouti, paneer lababdar, gucchi marmik, carrot-bean poriyal and millet pulao, rounded off with Old Delhi fruit cream with jalebi and shahtoot phirni for dessert — an all-vegetarian spread built to put India's culinary range, rather than any single regional cuisine, on full display for the visiting heads of state.