I used to do an annual round up of the best meals I had eaten in the whole year. Then, the list got so long that I started doing two half-yearly versions. This is the first one of 2024. It has been ...

Put yourself in this situation. You are a top Indian politician. You have fought for two terms against a government that you regard as immoral and a disgrace to the nation. You are not embarrassed to ...

This is not particularly surprising. Governments don’t really care that much about truth. As the Emergency movie’s ‘indefinite delay’ also shows us, political expediency, the need to win elections or ...

We were so close as people, that the Thais adopted many Indian cultural references and practices. Buddhism, which is the religion of the vast majority of Thais, came to them directly from India. But, ...

Restaurants were never meant to be dimly lit. Ask your parents and they will tell you that some bars and most nightclubs have always favoured dim lighting on the grounds that it suits the mood. But ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...

Until you actually go and see it up close, it is hard to understand how Copenhagen’s Noma, often regarded as the world’s most influential restaurant, is so different from other restaurants. Yes, Noma ...