The most famous of course, concerns the architect. According to legend, the Taj was designed by a Frenchman who sent the Tatas his architectural plans and was pleased to hear that they had been ...

famous Indian dishes in the world never to be cooked in Indian home kitchens, then there must surely be a vegetarian candidate for the same category. I think I have found it: it is the black dal so ...

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 ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Each time I go to Singapore, I marvel at the energy and enterprise of Singaporeans. Fifty years ago, there was no Singapore, the country. The city was Chinese-dominated (it still is: around 80 per ...

Each time I land in Bangalore, I am startled by how much the city has changed. Last week, Bangalore’s transformation from sleepy backwater to fancy high-tech city of the future was driven home to me ...

Few hotels spawn legends as easily as the Taj. Here’s one that I think will be repeated in all future histories of this grand hotel. According to British newspapers, one of the tourists trapped at the ...

Regular readers of this column will be familiar with two regulars of Rude Food. The first is the great biryani hunt, which is now into its second year with disastrous consequences for my shape. And ...

It is now possible to make perfect French fries with Indian potatoes I had always believed that it was possible to grow better quality potatoes in India -- and as it turns out, I was right Posted On: ...

International sporting events are meant to serve as advertisements for their host countries. The recently concluded soccer World Cup had the effect of demonstrating that no matter what we may have ...

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 ...