It’s been a so-so year for restaurants. Nothing really precedent-shattering opened. Very few restaurateurs took chances. And chefs were gradually replaced by bartenders as more and more bars pretended ...

I’ve written before about the move away from standard holidays to more experience-specific vacations. What this shift means is this: in the old days, you went on a holiday. You saw the sights. You ...

A lot of nonsense is spoken about food in India. But in no area are the myths and misconceptions as prevalent as they are in the case of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food habits. People still like to ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Sometimes a single hotel has the power to rise above brands. It may change its name again and again, but that never really matters. In Bombay, the Trident at Nariman Point has that distinction. When ...

If I asked you to name the most famous north Indian restaurant in the world, my guess is that you would pick the obvious contender: Bukhara. And, by and large, most people would agree with you. It’s ...

It is Bangkok time in India. By the time you read this, Gaggan Anand will have finished his whirlwind tour of four cities. The Suhring twins will be on the last day of their pop-up at the Taj Mahal ...

We now have a rough idea of what the food of ancient India was NOT like. We know that there were no potatoes. There were no tomatoes. There was no corn. And most intriguing of all, there were no ...

Something strange and bewildering is happening to movies in India and nobody is sure where it will lead. Over the last two weeks, the big story in newspapers and on TV channels has been the campaign ...

It is a question that has often intrigued me. Each time there is a Kumbh Mela, tens of thousands of sadhus appear, seemingly out of nowhere. As the world media train their cameras, the sadhus march ...

The controversy over the Delhi Gymkhana reminds me how different people define elites. And how our objections to clubs depend on our private resentments and prejudices. Let’s take my own example. I am ...