Well it’s one more example of how much things are changing at the top of India’s food scene. Once upon a time chefs followed ...

Besides, we all accept that the normal rules of free speech may be restricted in cases of terrorism. For instance most TV channels around the world will refuse to telecast videos made by such groups ...

The NDA landslide in Bihar defies the expectations of all but the most optimistic exit polls. That the alliance would win was ...

Most bar food all over the world is finger food so you get kababs, sausages, small masala prawns (a Bombay favourite from decades ago) and the like. Now junk sushi rolls are the finger food of choice ...

This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...

In the case of the latest Delhi attack judging by the little that we know, this was, ironically enough, a tragic consequence of an intelligence triumph.

Until you actually go and see it up close, it is hard to understand how Copenhagen’s Noma, often regarded as the world’s most influential restaurant, is so different from other restaurants. Yes, Noma ...

Most Indian gastronomic classics —that is to say, dishes that you find on lots of menus — have been around for decades if not centuries. North Indian biryani dates back to the Mughals. What we now ...

Let’s take a break from politics this week and talk about something that will at some stage affect most, if not all of us, but which is rarely discussed in opinion columns. All of us know that many (I ...

There are, wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, no second acts in American lives. I was reminded of this and about how it clearly did not apply to Indian lives when I had lunch last week with Ranjit Mathrani at ...

I wrote last weekend about how Punjabi food — not the kind Punjabis eat at home but the restaurant version—remained the top choice for Indians who ate out. A tweet about the article featured a photo ...

How do you respond when people say that there is no room for dissenting ideas in Indian politics? That mainstream television media is so cravenly sold out to the ruling establishment, and social media ...