Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

The worst part of some of the responses to the crash is the lack of respect they demonstrate for the hard working people of ...

The lack of anonymity doesn’t necessarily mean they always eat well. Years ago I went with Maschler to Le Chabanais a much hyped London restaurant opened by trendy French chef Inaki Aziparte. The food ...

It seems odd but for many, many years, I went to Bangalore mainly for the food. These days when you talk about Bangalore and food, people imagine that you mean the fancy newish places: Toscano, ...

For much of its early history, ITC Hotels was no more than India’s also-ran hotel chain. Bombay had the Taj and Delhi had the Oberoi. Both these chains so completely dominated the hospitality business ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

How will future generations remember our Prime Ministers? This is not a question about serious historical analysis but one about the rewriting and framing of history. It is no secret that for the last ...

Bangalore is now the food capital of India. And Mumbai is the only other city where exciting things are happening. Part of Delhi’s problem has been a lack of space. That has eased somewhat with the ...

It is not often that the same food trend occurs at two different levels simultaneously. Most times, what happens on the street happens on its own. And the top end of the market follows its own rules ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

Among the many things that surprise me about Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is how nothing stops the world from visiting. I have been writing about Thailand regularly for nearly four decades and ...

I don’t usually write very much about foreign policy because there are hundreds of writers (more, perhaps) who have dedicated their lives to studying Indian foreign policy and never hesitate to ...