That Kochi should be so full of Christian symbols despite being a largely Hindu city is one of the miracles of Kerala, the Indian state with the highest literacy rate (again, excluding the Northeast).

Now that both Vistara and Jet are gone, Air India has a monopoly in business class. So it could make profits by selling lots of high yield, profit making business class seats on metro sectors. Instead ...

Let’s start the foodie component of your weekend with three quiz questions. One: name a popular dish that is usually much better at fast food places than at expensive restaurants? Two: which is the ...

And indeed, you could argue that the great spectacles like the Kumbh Mela will distract Indians. But surely, at some stage, people will cease to be distracted and will notice such setbacks as the end ...

I went to dinner in Delhi‘s Connaught Place a fortnight ago. There was a time when it was the city‘s restaurant hub. Then, as Delhi exploded in all directions, the Connaught Place restaurants began to ...

On shorter flights, only one dish really works as an in flight packed meal: the Samosa.

There are very few subjects on which we display as much ignorance and hypocrisy as cannabis. Yes, cannabis: the plant that gives us the Bhang we consume at Holi, regarding it as part of our tradition.

Have Indians suddenly started booking tables at restaurants? I read two articles in two different financial papers last weekend which declared that they had. The evidence for this claim was, ...