It seems odd but for many, many years, I went to Bangalore mainly for the food. These days when you talk about Bangalore and food, people imagine that you mean the fancy newish places: Toscano, ...

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 ...

Comments. Upnworld 13 Aug 2023 Superb article Vir-ji, massive ground to cover but you aced it as usual. Aeons ago, Asit Chandmal would write fab articles in TOI and you’ve maintained the baton all ...

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 ...

I never need much persuasion to go back to Kolkata. So when Sumit Dasgupta, my former colleague at Sunday and now a big-shot Kolkata editor, invited me to conduct a conversation with Roni Mazumdar, I ...

A few weeks ago at HICSA, India’s most important hotel investment conference, Manav Thadani, who runs HVS, the organisation behind HICSA, presented Ajit Kerkar with a lifetime achievement award.

Nobody seriously disputes that it will take the global economy a long time to recover from the Corona virus pandemic. In India, when and if the problems caused by the lockdown are solved, we will then ...

If I asked you to name the most famous north Indian restaurant in the world, my guess is that you would pick the obvious contender: Bukhara. And, by and large, most people would agree with you. It’s ...

Should Rahul Gandhi have been critical of the way things are in today’s India when he spoke in the UK? Does this amount to asking white people to colonise India as some BJP supporters have suggested?

I once interviewed Jean-Claude Ellena, the legendary French perfumer (First by Van Cleef & Arpels, Declaration by Cartier, Terre d’Hermes, etc.) who created the first green tea fragrance for Bulgari ...

Sometimes a hotel can make or break your trip. I was invited to San Sebastian (in the Basque country in Spain) to attend Gastronomika, an international foodie seminar where India was the focus country ...

I was at a preview of the stunning Indian Accent in Mumbai (which may have opened to the general public by the time you read this) and as I tasted the food (on current form: better than the Delhi ...