“A truly great idli is a cloud, a whisper, a perfect dream of the perfectibility of human civilisation. It's a sublime ...

Among them were some Indian hotels. As the idea behind the keys is to recognise excellence at all price points there were some surprises but there was also widespread agreement over the two hotels ...

All the usual suspects have often been cited. The kulcha may be named after a Persian biscuit which has a similar name. It could have been brought to India from Central Asia by the Mughals. Or it may ...

Almost every single thing that Blumenthal has done has become a trend. So is his focus on mindful eating going to spell the ...

Casteism and ugly prejudice against those regarded as being low down in the caste pyramid are alive and well. The prejudices are flourishing at the very top of the Indian state. This was made clear ...

Long story short: I went back to Amsterdam and I enjoyed it far more than ever before. I am still a bit of a Philistine but years of marriage to an arts buff have educated me a little.

It is something that many of us have been thinking. But, as is often the case, it was Shashi Tharoor who put it best. As you probably remember, Tharoor recently led a delegation of Indian ...

Nothing tells you what a country is like as reliably as the state of its major airports. One reason why the world started looking more respectfully at East Asia was because so many of its airports ...

It’s probably an exaggeration to say that chefs are now national celebrities but it is fair to say that they attract more attention than ever before. Every time I participate in the Food Superstars ...