The system is so powerfully tilted against the innocent citizen and so favourable to the malign or corrupt police or revenue ...

I ate very well in Kolkata but the big discovery for me was what Chefs Vijay Malhotra and Pramod Sinha are doing with North Eastern food at the ITC Royal Bengal. They have already made North Eastern ...

In the decades that followed much has changed. Jaipur is now a typical North Indian city, full of unplanned development, ugly construction and noisy traffic jams. Unless he or she knows where to look, ...

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

The new venture opens on January 17. It is called Nisaba and is located in a modern development in one of Delhi’s most ...

Each time I go to Kolkata, I bring back some Gobindobhog rice. Gobindobhog is among the most celebrated rice varieties of Bengal, loved by people who know how to enjoy their rice. My wife cooks the ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have been reading this column for a while you will know that I can be a repetitive bore on the subject of street food. Indian street food has long been one of my obsessions and I can bore you ...

I was invited last week by Puneet Chhatwal, CEO of Indian Hotels (the Taj Group) to Udaipur where around 25 members of the Taj’s senior management were holding a strategy meeting. One evening, after ...

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 ...

It shouldn’t make a difference but sometimes when you see what’s happening in our neighbourhood, you admire the Indian system and its successes even more. God knows, we are not perfect. We face far ...