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

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 ...

In the case of the latest Delhi attack judging by the little that we know, this was, ironically enough, a tragic consequence of an intelligence triumph.

This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...

The second largest selling branded medication in India is already Mounjaro, the rival to the better known Ozempic; both of ...

How do you define an utter and complete jerk? It’s a hard one for me to answer because I am the sort of man who tries to see both sides of every argument and not to be too judgemental about other ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two aviation stories that appeared in the media this week caught my eye. One was from abroad. One was from India. Both had to do with the relationship between passengers and airlines. (And dogs too, ...

Until you actually go and see it up close, it is hard to understand how Copenhagen’s Noma, often regarded as the world’s most influential restaurant, is so different from other restaurants. Yes, Noma ...

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 ...

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 ...