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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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 ...

A fair number of India’s great chefs flew in to attend it and I think all of them had the same thought as me: it is a shame that the advances of El Bulli and Disfrutar have come to be represented by ...

It is the ultimate gastronomic accolade. And yet when it came it took much of the global foodie community by surprise. On Thursday night, Tresind Studio, an Indian restaurant in Dubai, was awarded ...

Could the nature of the restaurant business be changing? If the experience of the West is anything to go by then: Yes, certainly. And the changes are going to gain momentum. Dr Ambrish Mithal, India’s ...

I have known Jasjit Singh Assi (JJ) for nearly two decades from his early days as part of the opening team at the Four Seasons Mumbai to his years through various international Four Seasons properties ...

I don’t want to get too involved with the arguments for and against a caste census now that a consensus has emerged over the issue. But it is still worth pointing out that, until 1990, most major ...

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 ...

At that time the trans-Atlantic route was the most competitive in the world and European and American Airlines would slug it out for supremacy. Despite this, Air India, a small airline from a country ...