Nothing came of it because every government always wants its own stooges in Raj Bhavan. "If the Election Commission can get away with this kind of match tampering this time then what happens when it ...

And Instagram has changed many of the old rules. Restaurant discovery has become more and more dependent on Instagram; that’s where people first learn about restaurants. You don’t need to advertise ...

Never in the many decades since it was invented has jhal moori been as famous as it is today. Those of us who know Kolkata well (essentially people who have lived or worked there) have long been ...

The most famous example is biryani which moved away from the fancy Persian pulao tradition to create a moister, spicier dish that could be made easily in large containers. Biryani became the food of ...

It started this way. I went to lunch at Manish Mehrotra’s Nisaba. I had not been back since it opened officially though I had gone for the previews and had confidently predicted that it would become ...

Most visitors don’t realise this but there are actually two Maldives: Before and After. I like them both but sometimes I really miss the Before. Before what? I hear you ask. Well, before the Maldives ...

It’s a term that became popular in the early years of this century to categorise hotel chains from East Asia that were opening properties in the West and bringing higher and more gracious levels of ...

Here’s a hipness quiz for you. So, you are sitting in a bar with a dirty old man when suddenly a look of lust comes over his face and he says ‘hot honey’! Is he referring to the attractive waitress?

I knew that Lutyens had designed the building as a palace for the British Viceroy and that it had been inaugurated by the Raj in 1931 with celebrations that had not been attended by most ...

Do you have a favourite one dish meal? If that term sounds a little confusing, let me explain. All over the West ‘one pot meals’ are all the rage. The name sounds less interesting when you realise ...

Why do people live in such fear of the government in India? Why do we fear what vengeful (or corrupt) authorities can do to us? And more to the point: why does this fear exist even when we know that ...

Which is the most critically respected and awarded restaurant in the world today? Okay, I concede that there are many ways of measuring critical acclaim and these days the international restaurant ...