At the same time, all of India seems to have become more familiar with rice. Biryani is now the most ordered dish in the country. South Indian food, which has a higher rice content, has spread to all ...

The truth is that when service begins to decline at a restaurant, it is impossible to conceal this for very long however much the staff try and suck up to VIP guests. A good restaurant is like a ...

The charges levelled by Canada and America do worry us. But the double standards, the hypocrisy, and attempts to bash India to win votes in Canada worry us even more.

In all my years of travelling, there is one country I had never been to: Greece. When I mentioned this to friends abroad, they were surprised. But no Indian I spoke to thought it was at all odd.

It is a strange time in our country’s politics when a gangster is a major player in two different front page stories in the space of a few days. Not since the 1990s when Dawood Ibrahim found his way ...

Were you surprised by the massive public outpouring of grief at the passing of Ratan Tata? I know I was. And I think he would’ve been a little taken aback too. Perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised ...

Never forget: nobody knows anything. It is an adage popularised by the late William Goldman to describe Hollywood where people confidently predict surefire hits and then end up with massive flops. The ...

If you are travelling to a new city, how do you find a good hotel to stay in? Till a year ago, the short answer was: you take your chances and leave it to fate. One of the extraordinary things about ...

Though we think of the hospitality industry in general terms, combining hotels and restaurants together when we speak of hospitality, there is an important difference between the two sectors that we ...