Dhankar saw no need for such restraint. Not only was he vocal about what he regarded as Mamata’s failings, he had no hesitation in travelling around the country to tell people how badly the state was ...

13. So what did happen? The frightening thing is that we have no idea. It’s possible that there was a fault in the fuel valve or that the switch was defective and indeed there have been reports of ...

Once upon a time all the openings were in Gurgaon which was not great for Delhi people who did not want to brave traffic jams of much more than an hour or get stuck in water-logged roads for the three ...

India’s street food vendors get a really bad deal. They are terrorised by the police. They have to pay off municipal officials from their meagre earnings. And most of them barely eke out a living.

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 ...

I used to go for the Elvis Burger, the Litchi Shake, the Bacon and Egg Fried Rice and the Thai Spaghetti. Some of these dishes survive on the menu but last month at the Central Chidlom branch, service ...

Bukhara, which will begin celebrating its 45th anniversary this weekend, is now the most famous Indian restaurant in the world. Nearly every US President since Bill Clinton has eaten Bukhara’s food.

It was not always like this, I have, admittedly, always loved good hotels. But when I was younger, the hotel was much less important than it is now. I went only for the destinations themselves. And if ...

This has led to criticism of his ‘woke’ Superman from Fox News and other right wing US outlets who are agitated that Gunn has called Superman an immigrant at a time when the right is busy painting all ...

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 ...

For years and years, if you asked chefs and caterers which vegetable Indian vegetarians would not eat, the answer was always the same: mushrooms. Guests thought they were poisonous, we were told. Some ...

Sometimes food disappears. Tastes change. People move on. And snacks and dishes fall from favour. In Mumbai, in the 1970s, the most popular kind of popcorn was masala popcorn, flavoured with so much ...