Ignore tourist-friendly Western chains. You would have to be mad to queue up for L’Entrecote and over pay for a mediocre ...

All Indians are condiment lovers. From pickles to freshly ground chutneys: no Indian meal is complete without condiments. This is in sharp contrast to say, China, where there will often be no ...

Do you ever feel that as a middle class Indian you have lost control of your life? That now, more than ever, you are at the mercy of circumstances completely beyond your control? And though you are ...

Now that the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru is out of the way, it might be worth reflecting on the bitterness, rancour and downright abuse that characterized it during debates in TV studios, on ...

The primary agent of chaos is Indigo, India’s largest airline. Indigo has cancelled over 500 flights. Many, if not most of ...

I like hotels for different reasons. Some feel like home; because I am there so often. Some seem beautiful and different. Some have decades of history. Some epitomise luxury. This is a mixed list in ...

What do you eat when you are having a drink? It’s not a question with an easy answer. I find that it changes from city to city and generation to generation. My earliest childhood memories of watching ...

Hell hath no fury like an idli scorned. A British academic found this out the hard way. Asked to respond to a questionnaire about food preferences Ed Anderson replied candidly that he thought the idli ...

Just in case you had any doubts, you can stop wondering. Casteism and ugly prejudice against those regarded as being low down in the caste pyramid are alive and well. The prejudices are flourishing at ...

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 ...

There are, wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, no second acts in American lives. I was reminded of this and about how it clearly did not apply to Indian lives when I had lunch last week with Ranjit Mathrani at ...

How do you respond when people say that there is no room for dissenting ideas in Indian politics? That mainstream television media is so cravenly sold out to the ruling establishment, and social media ...