As most reviewers have pointed out, this is the only kind of Superman who makes sense in today’s complicated world. Though ...

Almost everyone you speak to will tell you that the London of today is not the same as the London of ten years ago. What that ...

The Dalai Lama has moved part of the way towards achieving that goal. There is a democratically elected government in exile ...

But regardless of which hot sauce you use, the chilli trend is here to stay. And ironically enough the impetus to add more ...

It is a story that has passed into foodie legend. In 1971/2, when the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai was planning its new tower wing (which eventually opened in late 1972), Camellia Panjabi, the hotel’s ...

Ask me what my favourite convenience food is and I’ll tell you that it is the sausage. At any given time, my fridge is full of sausages. I have all kinds: spicy Italian sausages, meaty-but-sweet ...

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 ...

There was a time in my life when I used to have to attend many state banquets in various countries. Some of them were fun because I got to sit next to interesting people and when I was attending ...

There are three ways in which central governments lose elections in India. The first and most common is that voters turn against them. This is what happened to Indira Gandhi’s Congress in 1977 and to ...

At that time the trans-Atlantic route was the most competitive in the world and European and American Airlines would slug it out for supremacy. Despite this, Air India, a small airline from a country ...

Each time Justin Trudeau comes to India, he makes a fool of himself. His notorious official visit, a few years ago, during which he mingled with separatists was sunk when photographs of him doing ...