It’s an amazing achievement not just because the chocolate is so good but because it reverses colonial history. This is Indian chocolate, Muppala says, made for Indians, by Indians from Indian beans.

Donald Trump is not the first US President to seem to favour Pakistan over India. We forget now that because Pakistan openly ...

Airports: Ninety per cent of the pain of travelling comes from airports not from aircraft.

He was reprimanded later and Atlantis no longer has those kinds of policies. But my point is that he couldn’t have been ...

More crucially, after several former Indian cricketers boycotted the match against Pakistan in the ongoing World Championship of Legends tournament, should we participate in the forthcoming Asia Cup ...

It was to prove to be a wise decision. The hotel was classy, elegant and better managed than most Singapore hotels I have stayed at over the last five years. As for Kuala Lumpur itself, Mahmoud warned ...

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 ...

It was Karl Marx (perhaps paraphrasing the German philosopher Hegel) who told us that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. The Congress has proved Marx wrong. It is repeating its ...

Which Indian city has the least exciting food scene? Surprisingly, the answer is Delhi. Not a lot that is any good happens or opens in the city. And while a lot happens in Gurgaon, most of it is far ...

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 ...

They came to the conclusion that food cooked at sea level tastes very different at 35000 feet. There were various reasons for this. Our sense of smell is reduced by at least 30 per cent at 35000 feet.