The system is so powerfully tilted against the innocent citizen and so favourable to the malign or corrupt police or revenue ...

I ate very well in Kolkata but the big discovery for me was what Chefs Vijay Malhotra and Pramod Sinha are doing with North Eastern food at the ITC Royal Bengal. They have already made North Eastern ...

In the decades that followed much has changed. Jaipur is now a typical North Indian city, full of unplanned development, ugly construction and noisy traffic jams. Unless he or she knows where to look, ...

famous Indian dishes in the world never to be cooked in Indian home kitchens, then there must surely be a vegetarian candidate for the same category. I think I have found it: it is the black dal so ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

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 ...

It may have been the most unusual letter ever written by a chief minister in India. Firstly, it was an open letter addressed to all Indians. Secondly, it went out on X and received (when I last looked ...

His wife has, famously, described him as a ‘crisis junkie’, but that’s not how Nusli Wadia likes to think of himself. He frowns a little when I remind him of the description and says, ‘ That’s very ...

Each time I go to Kolkata, I bring back some Gobindobhog rice. Gobindobhog is among the most celebrated rice varieties of Bengal, loved by people who know how to enjoy their rice. My wife cooks the ...

Most modern Indian cities strive to rise above ethnicity. Tell anybody who lives in Bombay that he lives in a Maharashtrian city and (unless of course, you are speaking to Bal Thackeray) he will take ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...

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 ...