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 ...

I have often defended sports boycotts - especially when India refuses to play sport with Pakistan. But this new sports spat with Bangladesh strikes me as illogical, badly thought-out and unlikely to ...

It’s been a so-so year for restaurants. Nothing really precedent-shattering opened. Very few restaurateurs took chances. And chefs were gradually replaced by bartenders as more and more bars pretended ...

If you have been reading this column for a while you will know that I can be a repetitive bore on the subject of street food. Indian street food has long been one of my obsessions and I can bore you ...

Sometimes I think of the rupee as an old friend you could once count on but who has now fallen on such hard times that you wonder if there is any recovery in sight. When I first started going to ...

It wasn’t that long ago so I imagine that many of us will remember the 2017 Unnao Rape case. After a huge public uproar the Courts finally tried and sentenced a BJP MLA called Kuldeep Sengar to a life ...

I have been to Amritsar many times. And I always thought the food was great. But is it really one of India’s great food cities? I was never sure. So when I went back for a weekend, I warned my wife ...