Another Homer-worthy irony is that if you go looking for Ancient Greek temples or monuments in Greece all you will find are ruins and structures recreated from collapsed columns. On the Amalfi coast ...

If people think the market will boom and deliver returns they will buy shares. If not then they will look for safer ...

Nothing came of it because every government always wants its own stooges in Raj Bhavan. "If the Election Commission can get away with this kind of match tampering this time then what happens when it ...

And Instagram has changed many of the old rules. Restaurant discovery has become more and more dependent on Instagram; that’s where people first learn about restaurants. You don’t need to advertise ...

Never in the many decades since it was invented has jhal moori been as famous as it is today. Those of us who know Kolkata well (essentially people who have lived or worked there) have long been ...

If we are to assess the culinary and gastronomic legacies of the Mughals then we must begin by dispelling two myths. The first is that today’s so-called Mughlai food is authentic: actually it has ...

I wrote, a couple of weeks ago, about the enduring charms of the Maldives. My purpose was to suggest holiday destinations that were unaffected by the hostilities in the Middle East and were near India ...

It’s been a good election season for Narendra Modi. Nobody can dismiss the BJP as a cow belt party after two stunning victories in Assam and West Bengal. Of the two, Bengal is the one that really ...

What you are seeing dear reader is the second version of this week’s Rude Food. I have been meaning to write about chocolate for many months now. But things took an unexpected turn along the way and I ...

A friend of mine who used to work at one of Delhi’s oldest five star hotels (opened in the late 1970s) told me this story. It dates, I imagine, to the late 1980s. My friend worked on the F&B side of ...