So, it’s best to do what they did in Jahangir’s court. Eat an aromatic lamb pulao. Try a little haleem. And combine it all with a paneer samosa or a khandvi. Because good food has no religion, only ...

First of all, should we be organising encounters of terrorists abroad? The broad answer has to be that if the US, Russia, Israel and other countries regarded it as the best way to fight terror then ...

This was a once in a lifetime experience. It will probably be another 100 years before anyone pulls off something like this again. I passed through Sundar Nursery three days later and saw that the ...

All over the world people rave about Asian service. The people who do the raving are mostly westerners who cannot conceive of a situation in which relatively poorly paid service staff (poorly paid by ...

If you are travelling to a new city, how do you find a good hotel to stay in? Till a year ago, the short answer was: you take your chances and leave it to fate. One of the extraordinary things about ...

It wasn’t until I went to boarding school in North India that I realised that many people thought of rice as a soft or flabby food that made people fat. Wheat, on the other hand, was hailed as the ...

It is a strange time in our country’s politics when a gangster is a major player in two different front page stories in the space of a few days. Not since the 1990s when Dawood Ibrahim found his way ...

Though we think of the hospitality industry in general terms, combining hotels and restaurants together when we speak of hospitality, there is an important difference between the two sectors that we ...

In all my years of travelling, there is one country I had never been to: Greece. When I mentioned this to friends abroad, they were surprised. But no Indian I spoke to thought it was at all odd.

Over the last week, people I respect from outside India have all asked me a variation of the same question: Why are Indians so angry about the charges levelled by the US and Canada regarding possible ...