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 ...

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 ...

Anybody who grew up on superhero comic books knew the rules. DC Comics had the better heroes (Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, etc.) but Marvel had the better stories. DC’s superheroes remained, well, ...

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 ...

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: ...

This piece is dedicated to different techniques for making risotto. If you have no interest in risotto then you may want to turn the page. On the other hand, I suggest that you pause a while. Risotto ...

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 ...