Secularism may be a tired, washed out concept in much of India but in Mamata’s Bengal it still reigns in all its majesty. For ...

But let’s give the humble goat the credit it rarely receives. Even in medieval Muslim courts where there was no bar on eating beef, goat was always preferred by kings, nobles and gourmets. There are ...

So the Brits will use it for such dishes as a Lancashire Hot Pot which is a mutton and potato stew. The French will call a ...

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 ...

Among the many things that surprise me about Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is how nothing stops the world from visiting. I have been writing about Thailand regularly for nearly four decades and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term going to be just like the second? Has the Bharatiya Janata Party’s failure to reach the numbers he so confidently expected diminished his ability to rule?

In every election, Indian politics changes a little. Not necessarily for the better or worse. But it changes nevertheless and then it’s never quite the same again. As we go into the general election, ...

Bukhara, which will begin celebrating its 45th anniversary this weekend, is now the most famous Indian restaurant in the world. Nearly every US President since Bill Clinton has eaten Bukhara’s food.

Do you know where the kulcha originated? If the answer is no, then relax. Nobody really does. All the usual suspects have often been cited. The kulcha may be named after a Persian biscuit which has a ...

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 ...