Most bar food all over the world is finger food so you get kababs, sausages, small masala prawns (a Bombay favourite from decades ago) and the like. Now junk sushi rolls are the finger food of choice ...

In the case of the latest Delhi attack judging by the little that we know, this was, ironically enough, a tragic consequence of an intelligence triumph.

This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...

Until you actually go and see it up close, it is hard to understand how Copenhagen’s Noma, often regarded as the world’s most influential restaurant, is so different from other restaurants. Yes, Noma ...

Nevertheless here is a list of some of the best meals I ate in India this year. I have excluded street food, delivery food and meals cooked by such visiting superstars as Massimo Bottura.

That’s probably why most educated Indians can’t name the last three mayors of New York City. The only mayor who may have some name recognition is Rudolph Guiliani who, in the post 9/11 phase achieved ...

How do you like your food? All together? Or one by one? It may seem like a stupid question but, in many ways, it holds the key to a country’s cuisine. In the West, they tend to eat their food one by ...

The second largest selling branded medication in India is already Mounjaro, the rival to the better known Ozempic; both of ...

Two aviation stories that appeared in the media this week caught my eye. One was from abroad. One was from India. Both had to do with the relationship between passengers and airlines. (And dogs too, ...

If you have eaten Thai food outside of Thailand, at a halfway decent restaurant (as distinct from a cheap takeaway) then the man you have to thank for how the food is selected, organised and served is ...

Most Indian gastronomic classics —that is to say, dishes that you find on lots of menus — have been around for decades if not centuries. North Indian biryani dates back to the Mughals. What we now ...

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 ...