Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

But these dishes were creatures of their time. Just as Escoffier was God’s gift to the dairy and milling industries because all his dishes required cream, butter and flour, the great Indian chefs of ...

On the grounds that you are as bored as I am of reading the same columns about the same issues – the government’s clash with Anna Hazare’s people, the collapse of Ramdev’s agitation, the impending ...

But because so many of my college friends loved the movie, I dropped my usual objections to space pictures and went and saw it. I remember being struck by the pace of the film. You had the sense that ...

His wife has, famously, described him as a ‘crisis junkie’, but that’s not how Nusli Wadia likes to think of himself. He frowns a little when I remind him of the description and says, ‘ That’s very ...

The lobster has fallen out of favour these days. Until around two decades ago, it was treated as the king of fish. When chefs planned a fancy menu, they took care to include such dishes as Lobster ...

Early in his first term, when Manmohan Singh was more accessible to the media and more willing to discuss issues with those whose views were different from his, the Prime Minister outlined what he ...

Few hotels spawn legends as easily as the Taj. Here’s one that I think will be repeated in all future histories of this grand hotel. According to British newspapers, one of the tourists trapped at the ...

There is a whole new generation that does not remember Krishna Menon which, I guess, is fair enough. Menon was forced out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet in 1962 and died in 1974. His glory years were ...

In the aftermath of 26/11, politicians emerged as the biggest villains. But close on their heels were the media. Whether it was people you ran into on the streets or the hate groups on Facebook, the ...

You Ask Greeting Mr Sanghvi, I really worry about the rampage a single party is causing across India. This is not a good sign. And ...