On the other hand, one welcome development was the spinning off of the apartments into a separate brand called 51 Buckingham ...
Bengal is one of India’s most clearly non vegetarian states. Most Bengalis will eat fish, chicken or meat with every meal if ...
Two developments only a few days apart shed light on both the row over the SIR process and the controversy about citizenship which is now seeming to be an integral part of the dubious SIR process. The ...
I don’t queue up at restaurants at all. I think it’s ageist for restaurants to not take reservations and to insist that ...
I don’t need to repeat the stories about how badly many Indian tourists behave in foreign countries: we have seen enough ...
In the West (and especially in America) a restaurant reservation can be the social equivalent of a gold brick. To be able to ...
Last week I spent three successive days in three different cities: Naples, Istanbul and Delhi. All three cities have distinctive and justly famous cuisines. But there was one dish that all three had ...
Ask most Indians to name a place in Italy and the chances are that they will say Rome. This is relatively unusual. In other countries it may be such tourist friendly cities as Venice that get ...
Unless you are really interested in chefs and restaurants you may have missed the storm over a residency by Noma, one of the world’s most influential and important restaurants in Los Angeles. What ...
In all the excitement about the forthcoming release of Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey one question remains unanswered. Will the Sirens feature in the movie? Those of you who paid attention at ...
At some stage we are going to ask ourselves: is MAGA turning into MIPA? Is the progress of Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again programme resulting in Make India Poor Again? It’s the kind of ...
So there will be a Dalai Lama even after the incumbent dies. Ending years of speculation the Dalai Lama announced this week that heeding appeals from millions of Tibetans he has come around to the ...