All of these explanations are plausible enough. But none fully explains the suddenness with which Allahbadia went from hero to Public Enemy Number One. The second important question we need to ask is: ...

That Kochi should be so full of Christian symbols despite being a largely Hindu city is one of the miracles of Kerala, the Indian state with the highest literacy rate (again, excluding the Northeast).

Now that both Vistara and Jet are gone, Air India has a monopoly in business class. So it could make profits by selling lots of high yield, profit making business class seats on metro sectors. Instead ...

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, ...

Have you been following the troubles of the Indian rupee which has crashed to historic lows over the last few days? Those of you with long memories will remember that the last time this happened, ...

Do Indians not like to work hard? There is only one possible answer to that question: don’t be ridiculous. We are among the hardest working people in the world. Often, it is not even a matter of ...

So, immigration is back at the top of our minds. The Mumbai police say that the man who attacked Saif Ali Khan was not a local but had sneaked into the city from Bangladesh. And anyone watching Donald ...

I have been writing, for many months now, about how middle class disenchantment with the government is growing. The middle class does not have the numbers to be electorally significant, let alone ...

I went to dinner in Delhi‘s Connaught Place a fortnight ago. There was a time when it was the city‘s restaurant hub. Then, as Delhi exploded in all directions, the Connaught Place restaurants began to ...

It is the taste of my childhood. And it has many different names. When I was young, the thinly sliced deep-fried potatoes I loved were freshly made and came from shops with the names like Okay Wafers ...