So good food is not about Michelin stars and World’s 50 Best. It is about restaurants where flavour is the star. Because you shouldn’t go to restaurants to show off. You should go to have fun!

So, how big was our victory in the conflict with Pakistan? Like most Indians, I would argue that we did very well. We made it clear to Pakistan that all terrorist strikes have consequences. It cannot ...

I have known Jasjit Singh Assi (JJ) for nearly two decades from his early days as part of the opening team at the Four Seasons Mumbai to his years through various international Four Seasons properties ...

It didn’t help VP Singh, but it did transform politics in North India, which moved from battles over serious and topical issues to straightforward caste and communal calculations. It could well be ...

What are the two most popular foreign cuisines in India? Easy. Chinese and Italian. So, given that Indians are travelling abroad so much (we spent nearly 19 billion dollars on our foreign holidays ...

But there is one restaurant that defies this categorisation and combines history with Michelin starred cuisine. It’s not a curry house. And it’s not one of the smart new trendy restaurants. It is a ...

Even if you have no interest in the luxury market, you will have noticed the number of luxury- related posts that are suddenly turning up on Instagram and other social media. Usually the point of a ...

Is there no escaping the golgappa? I recently went to a South Indian restaurant in Kuala Lumpur and there, among the starters, was a golgappa filled with Kerala flavours of prawn, tamarind and rasam.

The legitimate ‘fake’ paneer falls into the same category as mass-produced industrial ice cream (which manufacturers are now obliged to call ‘frozen dessert’ because it isn’t ice cream at all) and ...