The legitimate ‘fake’ paneer falls into the same category as mass-produced industrial ice cream (which manufacturers are now obliged to call ‘frozen dessert’ because it isn’t ice cream at all) and ...

Let’s start with the source of the allegations. AS Dulat is probably India’s most respected former spy. He rose to be Special Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) before going on to head the ...

This creates supply chain constraints. Many Hermes products are in short supply and waiting lists can get longer and longer. But, remarkably, customers are prepared to wait. They know that this ...

It’s much easier to fall back on the puri. You can buy ready made puris and even if you don’t, they are not difficult to make. So chefs are now effortlessly using golgappas as pastry cases for ...

In the restaurant business, even more than most others, it’s very hard to come back once you have been written off. Brilliant chefs are the toast of the global food community. And then, at the very ...

It’s not a story that Air India tells about itself though perhaps that could be because everyone who remembers it has probably left the airline. But, in the 1960s and for much of the 1970s Air India ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

Do you remember a time when chefs talked about fusion cooking? This was supposed to be food that combined Indian dishes with any kind of foreign influence. So, if you put Boursin cheese on a paratha, ...

Did Kuala Lumpur remind me of Singapore? Not in the slightest. It wasn’t just that everything cost a third of what it would have in Singapore, it was also that it seemed more cheerful and well, ...