It is a truism to say that the pandemic has had devastating consequences for the restaurant industry all over the world. At the end of India’s first wave, I wrote about three brilliant chef ...

A last point: perhaps somebody at Random House should have read the book closely before writing the inside jacket flap. Pratibha’s point is that the biryani’s origins are shrouded in dispute. (Was it ...

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 ...

Almost everywhere I went in Melbourne, I heard 'Ain't No Sunshine,' that old Bill Withers song.

She has just published a book of her recipes (it is called Indian Kitchen and I recommend it). But unlike most cookbook writers who focus either on north Indian food or specific regional cuisines, her ...

More unusually, he concedes that the government failed to act decisively to stop fraud in many cases. In 2011, he writes, his colleagues brought to his attention that private investors in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For several decades now, Indian governments have been obsessed with the idea of a middle class. In the 1970s, bureaucrats would tell foreign journalists that the Indian middle class numbered as much ...

The momo, Mr. Arora declared, is “more dangerous than alcohol or psychotropic drugs". Worse still, he added, teenagers were getting “addicted to momos like they do with drugs.” So, the “Chinese momo”, ...