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More crucially, after several former Indian cricketers boycotted the match against Pakistan in the ongoing World Championship of Legends tournament, should we participate in the forthcoming Asia Cup ...
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.
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 ...
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 have held off writing about the Air India crash for several reasons. Partly it was that I was saddened, shocked and so depressed by the tragedy that it was hard to string two sentences together let ...
At the end of our meal, Saket walked in, saw me and complained that I had not told him I was coming. I responded that the whole point of sneaking in was for no one to expect me and that, in any case, ...
Each day brought a new adventure. A trip to Bari, capital of the Puglia region, led to the discovery that while Italy is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic there is also a Christian minority that belongs ...
So, immigration is back at the top of our minds. The Mumbai police say that the man who attacked Saif Ali Khan was not a local but had sneaked into the city from Bangladesh. And anyone watching Donald ...
By the time he was ousted as prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau was not a popular leader. So, few tears were shed for him in his own country. None of the commentary pieces I read in the North ...
When does a cuisine become truly international? My guess is that the tipping point comes when a cuisine’s dishes and techniques are so widely accepted that anyone, anywhere in the world, no matter ...
Do you remember when movies and TV shows about chefs and restaurants were about fun? The British TV shows I recall were things like Chef! (With Lenny Henry) and Whites. In the US I enjoyed Kitchen ...