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 ...

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, ...

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.

I love ice cream. Not most industrial Indian ice cream perhaps but rich, creamy ice cream with a nice fattiness to coat the tongue and a distinct flavour that hits the palate. The ...

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 ...

How long would you queue up at a restaurant for? Would you stand outside the door for 45 minutes till they let you in? A whole hour? I guess it depends on how much you care. I don’t queue up at ...

It’s not a good time to be an Indian travelling abroad. I don’t need to repeat the stories about how badly many Indian tourists behave in foreign countries: we have seen enough evidence of that in the ...

It’s either a tribute to the power of social media or an example of how limited social media’s reach really is. Last week most newspapers carried the news that the Kwality Walls brands that we are all ...

Now that the Governor of Tamilnadu has run out of delaying tactics and finally sworn Vijay in, it may be time to list the takeaways from this election season. The first one is obvious. There is a long ...

It’s a term that became popular in the early years of this century to categorise hotel chains from East Asia that were opening properties in the West and bringing higher and more gracious levels of ...

Here’s a hipness quiz for you. So, you are sitting in a bar with a dirty old man when suddenly a look of lust comes over his face and he says ‘hot honey’! Is he referring to the attractive waitress?

Something strange happens to Indians when you talk about the conflict between Iran and the United States. No matter what points you may make about the unipolar global order most educated Indians are ...