Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

The worst part of some of the responses to the crash is the lack of respect they demonstrate for the hard working people of ...

There is something profoundly worrying in the response of what might be called the secular establishment to the massacre in Godhra. Though there is some dispute over the details, we now know what ...

Political demonstrations are an everyday affair in India. A significant part of the whole ritual of political protest is the burning of an effigy. Over the years, every leader of consequence (from ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

Sometimes you can go weeks without encountering a good chef or a memorable meal. And sometimes, you can meet two unusual and gifted chefs within hours on the same day. Last week, in Mumbai, I met two ...

famous Indian dishes in the world never to be cooked in Indian home kitchens, then there must surely be a vegetarian candidate for the same category. I think I have found it: it is the black dal so ...

I don’t usually write very much about foreign policy because there are hundreds of writers (more, perhaps) who have dedicated their lives to studying Indian foreign policy and never hesitate to ...

One of the more ironic passages in Milan Vaishnav’s When Crime Pays – Money and Muscle in Indian Politics is about Narendra Modi’s campaign during the last parliamentary election. At rally after rally ...

A couple of months ago, Saurabh Udinia had an idea. As chef at Singapore’s super-hot Revolver, Udinia has introduced some of the street-smart flavours of India into his fire-cooked menu of high ...

I still remember when I first came to Goa: as a teenager in 1976. A girlfriend and I splashed out on a room at the Fort Aguada Beach Resort, then the only good hotel in the state and marvelled at how ...

When I wrote about tipping some weeks ago, I had no idea that the piece would lead to so much debate on social media. I wrote that I thought tipping in restaurants was a stupid and pointless practice ...