So it looks like the Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi may go up for auction and may even cease to be a Taj Hotel if somebody else makes a higher bid. That, at least, is what the Delhi High Court ruled a ...

Most modern Indian cities strive to rise above ethnicity. Tell anybody who lives in Bombay that he lives in a Maharashtrian city and (unless of course, you are speaking to Bal Thackeray) he will take ...

70s who was managed by Gordon Mills, who also managed the biggest singer of that era: Tom Jones. Because Jones was the bigger star, Engelbert was always treated by his management as being something of ...

A lot of nonsense is spoken about food in India. But in no area are the myths and misconceptions as prevalent as they are in the case of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food habits. People still like to ...

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's ans In theory, yes. But the reality is more difficult. The only person who was able to ... Ask Now ...

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 ...

all day and served every kind of cuisine. In Bombay, such restaurants lined both sides of Churchgate Street. In Delhi, they were scattered all over Connaught Place. If you went to Gaylord in Bombay ...

It may have been somewhat lost in the hoopla surrounding the tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana but this month it will also be a decade since Mother Teresa of Calcutta passed on. "The ...