It’s an amazing achievement not just because the chocolate is so good but because it reverses colonial history. This is Indian chocolate, Muppala says, made for Indians, by Indians from Indian beans.

Donald Trump is not the first US President to seem to favour Pakistan over India. We forget now that because Pakistan openly ...

He was reprimanded later and Atlantis no longer has those kinds of policies. But my point is that he couldn’t have been ...

Airports: Ninety per cent of the pain of travelling comes from airports not from aircraft.

More crucially, after several former Indian cricketers boycotted the match against Pakistan in the ongoing World Championship of Legends tournament, should we participate in the forthcoming Asia Cup ...

The Four Seasons, Florence, is steeped in history. Though the construction dates to the 15th and 16th Century, most of the decorations come from the 18th and 19th Centuries. The walls are filled with ...

It is a story that has passed into foodie legend. In 1971/2, when the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai was planning its new tower wing (which eventually opened in late 1972), Camellia Panjabi, the hotel’s ...

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 ...

But two things intrigue me. One: is it too much to expect a degree of consistency from politicians? When exactly the same thing happened at the end of Manmohan Singh’s second term, it was treated as a ...

Each time Justin Trudeau comes to India, he makes a fool of himself. His notorious official visit, a few years ago, during which he mingled with separatists was sunk when photographs of him doing ...

I would call it a Korean food boom except that despite the names none of the flavours is particularly Korean. Hardly anyone uses Korean chillis or gochugaru, the distinctive Korean chilli powder, or ...

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 ...