The Dalai Lama has moved part of the way towards achieving that goal. There is a democratically elected government in exile ...

If you have been to a fancy Western restaurant or even to one serving that kind of food in India, you will have noticed that the food comes out from the kitchen already plated. The main component of ...

So, has Bangkok, which most of us know well and regard a reasonably priced holiday destination that is not too far away, ...

Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

So I make no value judgements about Gastro tourism. All I will say is that it now dominates gastronomy at the highest level.

Fortunately, unlike Shimla, which was destroyed by its own popularity, Mashobra and the areas around it remain unspoiled and quite ethereally beautiful. And Wildflower Hall is still the Queen of the ...

The mechanics of the food came next. Madan Jaiswal who had worked at the President Hotel on Asaf Ali Road was brought in to revise and rethink the traditional kabab menu. Jaiswal began making his ...

I am not necessarily a fan of cookbooks. But I love books about food in general: Something like 40% of the books I buy each month are food-related. Some are travelogues, some are collections of ...

America is a market that was always regarded as out-of-bounds to Indian chefs. But ever since Srijith Gopinathan won two Michelin stars at Campton Place in San Francisco, that seems to be changing.

Others suggest that the latest uproar is just one more assault in the battle to tame Bollywood. If the film/TV industry --- long regarded as entirely secular --- is cowed down and lives in fear of ...

There was a time when Mumbai was the food capital of India. But as one generation of chefs and restaurateurs — the Hemant Oberoi, Nelson Wang, Rahul Akerkar, etc. generation — retired or faded away, ...

It was the Left, not the Right, that traditionally opposed anything to do with the US, including even the Indo-US nuclear deal, which was clearly in India’s interests. (The Left’s opposition to that ...