Chancel’s principle is that if it wants to offer the ultimate luxury experience, the hotel mustn’t worry about costs. If a guest feels pampered, he or she will come back often enough to keep your ...

It is a measure of how much resentment there is of us Gujaratis in certain circles that a news item about the number of Gujaratis who try and enter the US illegally every year has provoked much ...

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 Vistara was a great ...

So, it’s best to do what they did in Jahangir’s court. Eat an aromatic lamb pulao. Try a little haleem. And combine it all with a paneer samosa or a khandvi. Because good food has no religion, only ...

Now that India has registered its responses to the allegations that it tried to organise assassinations in Canada and the USA, it is time to look at the issue with less emotion and a little more ...

All over the world people rave about Asian service. The people who do the raving are mostly westerners who cannot conceive of a situation in which relatively poorly paid service staff (poorly paid by ...

Over the last week, people I respect from outside India have all asked me a variation of the same question: Why are Indians so angry about the charges levelled by the US and Canada regarding possible ...

It wasn’t until I went to boarding school in North India that I realised that many people thought of rice as a soft or flabby food that made people fat. Wheat, on the other hand, was hailed as the ...

What if you could have dinner at a restaurant that existed for just one brief shining moment? Where, if you went back, a day or two later, there would be no sign that the restaurant with its elaborate ...

Do cookery shows on TV change the way we look at food? My guess is that they affect our eating habits far more profoundly than we realize. And restaurateurs who don’t watch TV are doing themselves – ...