"It is great to find somewhere in Delhi that’s exciting because judging by my experience it’s Mumbai where the adventurous, good stuff is happening." And as an outsider Morwani uses the form and ...

It’s strange that the cops have no idea of the power of the camera phone. Because these phones have now shown India how its policemen actually function. And how much they enjoy assaulting young people ...

But that may be changing again. Punjabi food is making a comeback but this time it’s real Punjabi food not the three-curry formula of yore that’s finding favour.

Yes, many people love him. But those that don’t are scared of him. Rightly or wrongly there is a perception that any person or group that opposes the government will pay a terrible price: arrests, ...

Judging by the events of the last week, they are not a straight forward rerun of the so called India Against Corruption movement. They are not as well organised. There are no RSS -manufactured crowds.

India is the land that invented the guru-shishya parampara. In few other societies has there been such a tradition of master and disciple. And yet, somehow, this has never really extended to chefs and ...

He is almost certainly the most influential living hotelier of Indian origin in the world. And ever since Sonu Shivdasani walked away from Soneva the resort company he founded a year or so ago, the ...

Would you let your children eat food cooked by the Hare Krishna movement? (Or the International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON to give it the full title.) It may sound like a strange ...

I hope that by the time you read this column Sonam Wangchuk has ended his fast. He is too good a person for us to lose. But if you follow the social media commentary about Wangchuk and the protest he ...

Two developments only a few days apart shed light on both the row over the SIR process and the controversy about citizenship which is now seeming to be an integral part of the dubious SIR process. The ...

These days I go to London relatively rarely so I try and spend the few meals I have in the city at new restaurants just to get a sense of what’s happening in the food scene. My trip last week was no ...