But that may be changing again. Punjabi food is making a comeback but this time it’s real Punjabi food not the three-curry formula of yore that’s finding favour.

I love ice cream. Not most industrial Indian ice cream perhaps but rich, creamy ice cream with a nice fattiness to coat the tongue and a distinct flavour that hits the palate. The ...

When the Cockroach Janata Party made its debut on social media, the response it evoked became a global news story. The general tone of the coverage was that something significant was happening in ...

These days I go to London relatively rarely so I try and spend the few meals I have in the city at new restaurants just to get a sense of what’s happening in the food scene. My trip last week was no ...

How long would you queue up at a restaurant for? Would you stand outside the door for 45 minutes till they let you in? A whole hour? I guess it depends on how much you care. I don’t queue up at ...

It’s either a tribute to the power of social media or an example of how limited social media’s reach really is. Last week most newspapers carried the news that the Kwality Walls brands that we are all ...

Now that the Delhi Gymkhana is in the news perhaps it is time to talk a little about club food; not just the Delhi Gym cuisine but club food in general. A vast mythology has grown up around club food ...

How we used to laugh! Two decades ago if you went to a fancy restaurant anywhere in the West you would see neatly dressed Japanese guests with expensive cameras. Each time a course was served they ...

It’s a term that became popular in the early years of this century to categorise hotel chains from East Asia that were opening properties in the West and bringing higher and more gracious levels of ...

Something strange happens to Indians when you talk about the conflict between Iran and the United States. No matter what points you may make about the unipolar global order most educated Indians are ...

In November 2024 I wrote in this column about the imminent arrival of weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro and how they would change the world. The first and most immediate effect, I predicted, ...

Do you ever feel that as a middle class Indian you have lost control of your life? That now, more than ever, you are at the mercy of circumstances completely beyond your control? And though you are ...