Donald Trump is not the first US President to seem to favour Pakistan over India. We forget now that because Pakistan openly ...

Airports: Ninety per cent of the pain of travelling comes from airports not from aircraft.

He was reprimanded later and Atlantis no longer has those kinds of policies. But my point is that he couldn’t have been ...

More crucially, after several former Indian cricketers boycotted the match against Pakistan in the ongoing World Championship of Legends tournament, should we participate in the forthcoming Asia Cup ...

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.

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

It was Karl Marx (perhaps paraphrasing the German philosopher Hegel) who told us that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. The Congress has proved Marx wrong. It is repeating its ...

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 ...

I am told also that the really exciting developments are happening in the East Asian food sector. There are great Thai restaurants, I am assured; amazing Japanese places and authentic Korean food!

It helps to know all this to understand the book better because it is intensely personal for the Botturas and the contents reflect their stories and memories. Gilmore writes about decorating the ...

Prannoy and I broke up Musharraf’s little love-fest with Indian editors and the breakfast ended on a sour note. So did the Agra summit itself, a little later. That was the sum total of my interactions ...

No government plans its future on the basis of a single strategy. That way, even if things do not go according to Plan A, then there is, at least, a Plan B; and optimistically a Plan C and so on. The ...