So do go ahead and try hot honey. I reckon the fad has about a couple of years to run. But never forget that the true hero of this story is the bee and the miles it flies through the air searching out ...

"The Rajgarh palace was built around 35O years ago making it the oldest palace to be converted to a hotel and the Oberois have had to substantially restore the main structure." Two years ago, ashamed ...

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.

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 ...

Among the many things that surprise me about Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is how nothing stops the world from visiting. I have been writing about Thailand regularly for nearly four decades and ...

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 ...

So, immigration is back at the top of our minds. The Mumbai police say that the man who attacked Saif Ali Khan was not a local but had sneaked into the city from Bangladesh. And anyone watching Donald ...

At no time in our recent history has there been so much anger over harassment and corruption by government officials, bureaucrats and police/customs/enforcement ...

It’s not a story that Air India tells about itself though perhaps that could be because everyone who remembers it has probably left the airline. But, in the 1960s and for much of the 1970s Air India ...

How bad is it for the chief minister of a state to insult the President of India? The answer is obvious: it’s disgraceful—an insult not just to the individual but to the office of President and to the ...

I knew that Lutyens had designed the building as a palace for the British Viceroy and that it had been inaugurated by the Raj in 1931 with celebrations that had not been attended by most ...

Do you ever feel that as a middle class Indian you have lost control of your life? That now, more than ever, you are at the mercy of circumstances completely beyond your control? And though you are ...