Well it’s one more example of how much things are changing at the top of India’s food scene. Once upon a time chefs followed ...

Besides, we all accept that the normal rules of free speech may be restricted in cases of terrorism. For instance most TV channels around the world will refuse to telecast videos made by such groups ...

The NDA landslide in Bihar defies the expectations of all but the most optimistic exit polls. That the alliance would win was ...

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 ...

It took me a few months to get on the road, but I have not let the pandemic stop me from travelling. I believe it is important for our mental health to get out of the house and periodically offer ...

Wherever you find rice, you will usually also find a sausage and rice dish. In the Far East, where rice is the staple, it is common to fry it with slices of slightly sweet Chinese sausage. In North ...

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 ...

His wife has, famously, described him as a ‘crisis junkie’, but that’s not how Nusli Wadia likes to think of himself. He frowns a little when I remind him of the description and says, ‘ That’s very ...

Most bar food all over the world is finger food so you get kababs, sausages, small masala prawns (a Bombay favourite from decades ago) and the like. Now junk sushi rolls are the finger food of choice ...

There are more restaurants in India than ever before. There are more cuisines available than we have ever known. And, inevitably, there are more menu clichés (what we call ‘food trends’ when we are ...

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 ...

How did you feel when you heard that Gen. Pervez Musharraf had died? Were you sad? Were you overjoyed? Did you feel a tinge of sorrow and regret? Or did you find it hard to control your jubilation?