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

If you have been to a fancy Western restaurant or even to one serving that kind of food in India, you will have noticed that the food comes out from the kitchen already plated. The main component of ...

So, has Bangkok, which most of us know well and regard a reasonably priced holiday destination that is not too far away, ...

So I make no value judgements about Gastro tourism. All I will say is that it now dominates gastronomy at the highest level.

Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

First things first: This is a list that rather conveniently uses two different definitions when selecting the best Indian restaurants of the year. I have included some of the best ones serving Indian ...

So farewell then Vistara. You were a good airline and the Indian aviation scene is poorer for your passing. We shall all miss you. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let me say that I don’t think ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...

I am not necessarily a fan of cookbooks. But I love books about food in general: Something like 40% of the books I buy each month are food-related. Some are travelogues, some are collections of ...

It was not always like this, I have, admittedly, always loved good hotels. But when I was younger, the hotel was much less important than it is now. I went only for the destinations themselves. And if ...

Indians have a pretty good idea of what Japan is about. We are crazy for sushi, have grown up using Japanese electronic products, are familiar with such automobile brands as Toyota, Honda and of ...

The cuisine of Morocco is much celebrated in the West. There are highly-rated Moroccan restaurants in America. Moroccan cookbooks are popular all over the world. Everybody loves Moroccan food. Except ...