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

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, ...

But to live like this, in constant dread of America, is not just a major foreign policy failure for India. It is also a waste ...

But here’s my advice: plan early. We live in an age of dynamic pricing where there is no fixed price for anything. Air ...

Are we now in a situation where liberals (and, in the Indian context, secular liberals) have got so used to seeing Muslims in ...

The new venture opens on January 17. It is called Nisaba and is located in a modern development in one of Delhi’s most ...

What do you suppose is India’s favourite bottled sauce? If you answered ‘tomato ketchup’ you would probably be right. But despite the current sauce boom and the growing popularity of mayonnaise, I ...

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 ...

Bukhara, which will begin celebrating its 45th anniversary this weekend, is now the most famous Indian restaurant in the world. Nearly every US President since Bill Clinton has eaten Bukhara’s food.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...