But let’s give the humble goat the credit it rarely receives. Even in medieval Muslim courts where there was no bar on eating beef, goat was always preferred by kings, nobles and gourmets. There are ...

Secularism may be a tired, washed out concept in much of India but in Mamata’s Bengal it still reigns in all its majesty. For ...

So the Brits will use it for such dishes as a Lancashire Hot Pot which is a mutton and potato stew. The French will call a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you suppose is India’s favourite bottled sauce? If you answered ‘tomato ketchup’ you would probably be right. But despite the current sauce boom and the growing popularity of mayonnaise, I ...

Just in case you had any doubts, you can stop wondering. Casteism and ugly prejudice against those regarded as being low down in the caste pyramid are alive and well. The prejudices are flourishing at ...

Every single time, I interviewed Amarinder Singh when he was chief minister of Punjab, he came back, again and again, to the same point. There was, he said, a concerted attempt to revive the Khalistan ...

When you go to a restaurant do you see yourself as a guest or as a customer? I know. It sounds like a silly distinction. But actually, it is not. In many ways it is the key to how you view the ...

Himanshu is Manish’s most successful disciple but Indian restaurants all over the world have former Manish protégés in the ...

The system is so powerfully tilted against the innocent citizen and so favourable to the malign or corrupt police or revenue ...