Once upon a time all the openings were in Gurgaon which was not great for Delhi people who did not want to brave traffic jams of much more than an hour or get stuck in water-logged roads for the three ...

India’s street food vendors get a really bad deal. They are terrorised by the police. They have to pay off municipal officials from their meagre earnings. And most of them barely eke out a living.

As most reviewers have pointed out, this is the only kind of Superman who makes sense in today’s complicated world. Though ...

13. So what did happen? The frightening thing is that we have no idea. It’s possible that there was a fault in the fuel valve or that the switch was defective and indeed there have been reports of ...

Almost everyone you speak to will tell you that the London of today is not the same as the London of ten years ago. What that ...

Indians have a pretty good idea of what Japan is about. We are crazy for sushi, have grown up using Japanese electronic products, are familiar with such automobile brands as Toyota, Honda and of ...

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 ...

Now that we have had enough time to settle down and look at the last Indian general election relatively dispassionately, we need to ask ourselves: Has anything really changed? Is Prime Minister ...

How will future generations remember our Prime Ministers? This is not a question about serious historical analysis but one about the rewriting and framing of history. It is no secret that for the last ...

For much of its early history, ITC Hotels was no more than India’s also-ran hotel chain. Bombay had the Taj and Delhi had the Oberoi. Both these chains so completely dominated the hospitality business ...

Worse was to follow. The Panchen Lama chosen by the monks and the Dalai Lama was picked up by the Chinese army and taken to an undisclosed destination. He has rarely been seen since. The Panchen Lama ...