India, July 17 -- I love ice-cream. Not most industrial Indian ice-cream perhaps, but rich, creamy ice-cream with a nice fattiness to coat the tongue and a distinct flavour that hits the palate.

The basic problem with mass produced ice-cream is that it's usually not very good. In markets like India, ice-cream is still regarded as a children's product. This means it does not have to be very good as long as it can be sold at a relatively affordable price.

I often question whether adults in our country realise that most of the ice-cream is pretty terrible. Because otherwise, I can't see why customers pay so much at restaurants and hotels for industrial ice-cream that they could buy at a shop for a fraction of the price that restaurants cha...