Each year Sangeeta and NASVI organise a massive Street Food Festival in Delhi. Thousands of people attend and NASVI arranges for vendors from all over India to come and set up stalls.

But Semma’s success has defied all expectations. It is the only Indian restaurant in New York with a Michelin star and Vijaya ...

I may not be the only one to have come to this conclusion. The riverside is now the luxury destination in Bangkok (as hotel rates demonstrate). And there is one advantage: among the most alienating ...

Welcome to justice in India. There was a time, around 50 years ago, when powerful people got away with anything. Then, thanks to judicial interventions, public pressure and an aggressive media, the ...

It turned out that India was not an exception to the global trend for small production wines and despite the fundamental illiteracy of most wine buyers at big hotels, the growers wines have been so ...

What do you suppose is India’s favourite bottled sauce? If you answered ‘tomato ketchup’ you would probably be right. But despite the current sauce boom and the growing popularity of mayonnaise, I ...

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 ...

Sometimes food disappears. Tastes change. People move on. And snacks and dishes fall from favour. In Mumbai, in the 1970s, the most popular kind of popcorn was masala popcorn, flavoured with so much ...

For as long as you have known him or at least, known about him, Vikas Khanna has had a secret. He kept the secret when Junoon, where he was the Chef, won a Michelin star in 2011. He kept it close to ...

How do you respond when people say that there is no room for dissenting ideas in Indian politics? That mainstream television media is so cravenly sold out to the ruling establishment, and social media ...

Very rarely does the cooking of a single dish become a craze or dominate popular culture and social media. But something like that has happened with the omelette from Season two of The Bear. It is now ...

Is all the excitement about the election for Congress president justified? Will the elections make any real difference? Won’t Rahul Gandhi suddenly step in, agree to contest ‘by popular demand’ and ...