Welcome to justice in India. There was a time, around 50 years ago, when powerful people got away with anything. Then, thanks to judicial interventions, public pressure and an aggressive media, the ...
It turned out that India was not an exception to the global trend for small production wines and despite the fundamental illiteracy of most wine buyers at big hotels, the growers wines have been so ...
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 ...
Ignore tourist-friendly Western chains. You would have to be mad to queue up for L’Entrecote and over pay for a mediocre ...
Last week I spent three successive days in three different cities: Naples, Istanbul and Delhi. All three cities have distinctive and justly famous cuisines. But there was one dish that all three had ...
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 ...
Malaysia is the South East Asian destination that Indians never pay enough attention to. I plead guilty myself to this neglect. Nearly two decades ago I went to Kuala Lumpur and Penang to shoot for my ...
Even though India is in the midst of a bakery boom and pastry chefs are now celebrities in the food world, have you noticed how, in much of the country, you still get the same old cakes and puddings?
The closing debate of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) is the main event of the entire festival. The front lawn, the largest space in the festival complex, is always jam-packed with an engaged ...
The primary agent of chaos is Indigo, India’s largest airline. Indigo has cancelled over 500 flights. Many, if not most of these cancellations have been last minute affairs. Passengers go the airport, ...
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 ...
At no time in our recent history has there been so much anger over harassment and corruption by government officials, bureaucrats and police/customs/enforcement ...