Are we now in a situation where liberals (and, in the Indian context, secular liberals) have got so used to seeing Muslims in ...

But to live like this, in constant dread of America, is not just a major foreign policy failure for India. It is also a waste ...

But here’s my advice: plan early. We live in an age of dynamic pricing where there is no fixed price for anything. Air ...

By giving in so readily to the forces of hatred, the BCCI has let India down. It has reversed its own policy, it has sabotaged the Foreign Ministry’s well thought out approach to Bangladesh, and it ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

I wrote last weekend about how Punjabi food — not the kind Punjabis eat at home but the restaurant version—remained the top choice for Indians who ate out. A tweet about the article featured a photo ...

I have seen so many Indians travelling abroad this season that I reckon we form a huge source of income for restaurant owners all over the world. Unfortunately, like most tourists, we don’t always ...

For as long as I can remember, the Uniform Civil Code has been the BJP’s equivalent of a nuclear option: a deadly strike but one with a worrying fallout. In fact, even before the BJP was formed, the ...

At no time in our recent history has there been so much anger over harassment and corruption by government officials, bureaucrats and police/customs/enforcement ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Have Indians suddenly started booking tables at restaurants? I read two articles in two different financial papers last weekend which declared that they had. The evidence for this claim was, ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...