And so travel for me now is a foodie adventure. Nearly everywhere I go, I try and eat the local food, even in places where I don’t speak the local language and nobody speaks a word of English.

And finally: it’s good to see a cookbook that recognises the importance of restaurant dishes but is focused on the best Indian dishes; the ones we eat at home every day.

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

Either Dubai changed (which it has) or I have (more likely) or a combination of both. My wife, whose views on Dubai used to ...

But this achievement has been balanced out by a spectacular growth in corruption among babus and cops. The Inspector Raj is not only alive and well, it is one of India’s fastest growing industries ...

Each time I post a picture of the idlis I enjoy for breakfast I get bemused responses from many North Indians who cannot figure out why anyone would like idlis so much. In Anderson’s case, his ...

If there was a Nobel Prize for boot licking then Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would win it hands down. At a gathering in Sharm el Sheikh organised by US President Donald Trump to mark the ...

Do you know where the kulcha originated? If the answer is no, then relax. Nobody really does. All the usual suspects have often been cited. The kulcha may be named after a Persian biscuit which has a ...

Just in case you had any doubts, you can stop wondering. Casteism and ugly prejudice against those regarded as being low down in the caste pyramid are alive and well. The prejudices are flourishing at ...

Nothing tells you what a country is like as reliably as the state of its major airports. One reason why the world started looking more respectfully at East Asia was because so many of its airports ...

How bad is my face? Not great, apparently. I sat in Layan in Thailand staring at a high tech machine with a doctor. The doctor took pictures of my face and the machine did the rest. It looked for ...

Let’s start with a little imagining. A Bangladeshi enters India illegally. He ends up in Delhi and though he speaks very little Hindi and does not know how to interpret road signs, finds a job as a ...