Dhankar saw no need for such restraint. Not only was he vocal about what he regarded as Mamata’s failings, he had no hesitation in travelling around the country to tell people how badly the state was ...

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.

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As most reviewers have pointed out, this is the only kind of Superman who makes sense in today’s complicated world. Though Gunn sets his movie in a parallel universe full of meta humans and super ...

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 means depends mostly on who it is you are speaking to. If you speak to ...

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 ...

Which city do you think has the largest number of the world’s best restaurants? If you answered London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong or New York, you would be completely wrong. The correct answer is ...

I have held off writing about the Air India crash for several reasons. Partly it was that I was saddened, shocked and so depressed by the tragedy that it was hard to string two sentences together let ...

What’s the difference between traditional Indian chefs and top western chefs? I would imagine that there are many differences. But here is the big one: Secrecy. Sharing is not part of the Indian ...

Each day brought a new adventure. A trip to Bari, capital of the Puglia region, led to the discovery that while Italy is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic there is also a Christian minority that belongs ...

It was to prove to be a wise decision. The hotel was classy, elegant and better managed than most Singapore hotels I have stayed at over the last five years. As for Kuala Lumpur itself, Mahmoud warned ...