Zecha had found a new niche: super-rich travellers who were willing to pay a fortune for small, luxury hotels. Zecha got back ...

So you would have to be nuts to deny that there is a serious problem. Most sensible people who object to the Supreme Court judgement do not dispute that something needs to be done. They just think ...

The Romans were probably the first to recognise the unique ability of some fish to flavour dishes without making them too fishy. Classic texts tell us that garum, a fermented fish sauce, was a primary ...

It’s an amazing achievement not just because the chocolate is so good but because it reverses colonial history. This is Indian chocolate, Muppala says, made for Indians, by Indians from Indian beans.

Donald Trump is not the first US President to seem to favour Pakistan over India. We forget now that because Pakistan openly ...

Well, of course it wasn’t. No street food guy sells pakoras in ready made packages like cigarette packs. It was the signboards that would end up targeting the vada pav wallas we were objecting to. And ...

Because this column is about the tragic Air India crash at Ahmedabad airport I want to begin with some qualifications before we go much further. I am, by no means, an aviation expert. But then, nor ...

Almost everyone you speak to will tell you that the London of today is not the same as the London of ten years ago. What that means depends mostly on who it is you are speaking to. If you speak to ...

What does the way most Indians eat our food have in common with the West’s great Michelin starred restaurants? And we started doing it thousands of years before the West had any restaurants at all, ...

As the global outrage over Donald Trump’s tariff policy mounts, it may be time for us to look at the experience of Narendra Modi. If you listen to American and British commentators what Trump is doing ...

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 ...

It has been a strange feeling observing last week’s UK elections and UK politics in general. When I spent some of my early life in the UK, most of us were fairly clear about which side Indians should ...