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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bukhara, which will begin celebrating its 45th anniversary this weekend, is now the most famous Indian restaurant in the world. Nearly every US President since Bill Clinton has eaten Bukhara’s food.

It was Karl Marx (perhaps paraphrasing the German philosopher Hegel) who told us that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. The Congress has proved Marx wrong. It is repeating its ...

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 ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...