It’s been a good election season for Narendra Modi. Nobody can dismiss the BJP as a cow belt party after two stunning victories in Assam and West Bengal. Of the two, Bengal is the one that really ...

I reckon that the beauty of chocolate is that we don’t have to choose. Unlike say, wine where the cheap stuff can be foul, ...

The most famous example is biryani which moved away from the fancy Persian pulao tradition to create a moister, spicier dish ...

They were right, of course. The Maldives has been very expensive for a long time but it may now be unaffordable because of the plummeting rupee. In fact many, if not most, foreign destinations now ...

That’s democracy in action! Or how the rulers perceive it. But why were the citizens of Mumbai being made to pay for the ...

It’s hard to believe now but Donald Trump was once the BJP’s pin up boy. Long before he even won his first term BJP leaders were throwing parties to celebrate his birthday. The BJP’s online army used ...

What’s the best way to acquire skills? Learning on the job? Or attending a formal course? I guess it depends on the nature of the skills. If you want to be a doctor or an engineer then there is no ...

I am sure you have heard of Khajuraho. And I am as sure that most of you have never been there. On the other hand at least you could go there if you wanted to. For centuries not only did nobody go to ...

Something strange happens to Indians when you talk about the conflict between Iran and the United States. No matter what points you may make about the unipolar global order most educated Indians are ...

Did you expect Dubai to become a target in the current Iran conflict? I certainly did not. And neither, I suspect, did the residents of Dubai themselves. When I heard about the explosions in the city, ...

In the hundreds of thousands of words I have read about the new India-US trade deal, here’s one parallel I have not seen cited: the deal and its power dynamics represent nothing that we in India haven ...

Put yourself in Manish Mehrotra’s shoes. You are, by common consent, India’s greatest chef. At a time when modern Indian food was mostly about the Frenchified presentation preferred by chefs at ...