Last week we were booked to go to Bangkok to attend the World Gourmet Festival, an annual event organised by the Anantara ...

Narendra Modi acted only after the Jantar Mantar protests threatened to spread across the nation, and he feared losing the support of young people. (But he needn’t worry about that now. Reports ...

It’s such a relief to finally be able to get good bread in India. The rise in bread quality is one of the great undocumented success stories of India’s food scene. Till the beginning of this century ...

It’s a measure of how much the Tata group impacts the lives of all Indians that so many of us — including those with no interest in corporate affairs — are following the current battle between Tata ...

I want to discuss the international furore caused by the demand made by the largely Gujarati Swaminarayan sect to evict all women from the Eiffel Tower. But first, we need to talk about today’s ...

Not most industrial Indian ice cream perhaps but rich, creamy ice cream with a nice fattiness to coat the tongue and a distinct flavour that hits the palate. The basic problem with mass produced ice ...

How long would you queue up at a restaurant for? Would you stand outside the door for 45 minutes till they let you in? A whole hour? I guess it depends on how much you care. I don’t queue up at ...

The Michelin guide is considered the ultimate arbiter of taste. Chefs long to win a Michelin star but the phrase ‘Michelin starred’ has been so abused that most people are confused about what it means ...

Now that the Governor of Tamilnadu has run out of delaying tactics and finally sworn Vijay in, it may be time to list the takeaways from this election season. The first one is obvious. There is a long ...

Something strange happens to Indians when you talk about the conflict between Iran and the United States. No matter what points you may make about the unipolar global order most educated Indians are ...

It’s easy to jump to conclusions. Four years ago everyone I spoke to in the West said meat-eating was in decline. We had recognised the danger that methane emissions (from the farming of livestock ...

What do you think of the Indian pasta tradition? If your response is one of bewilderment then join the club. That’s what I would have said too — at least until a week ago. “What rubbish! There is no ...