India, April 11 -- I have ever so often, in this very column, made the case for going out to eat alone. I do this all the time and I can't recommend it enough. It gives you time to people-watch. You c... Read More
India, April 11 -- What makes a chef who runs a three-Michelin-star restaurant so different from the rest? What is it about his cooking that so impresses Michelin inspectors? Unless you operate withi... Read More
India, April 11 -- Who doesn't love a good ghost story? The woman in a white sari spooking drivers on the highway. The abandoned haveli, from where laughs and screams still echo. The phantom shadows i... Read More
India, April 11 -- Put down the camera for a minute. The best shots, as most photographers will tell you, have nothing to do with equipment. Sure, a good lens can capture light, colour and detail bett... Read More
India, April 4 -- The Hindi poet Dushyant says, "A true artist portrays what they have lived and suffered". And you can see it plainly and eloquently in Zarina Hashmi's art. Zarina, who passed away i... Read More
India, April 4 -- I write this column on the first day of the nine-day period of Navratri, a festival that has always had special resonance for me and my family. But, for the life of me, I can't remem... Read More
India, April 4 -- 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 th... Read More
India, April 4 -- What do you think of when you think of an inheritance? Grandpa's furniture, languishing in the family home; Grandma's saris, featuring designs we just don't see anymore. Mum's gold e... Read More
India, April 4 -- Indian weddings are a circus as it is - a mehendi, a sangeet, a haldi, a bachelorette night, a bridal shower. The day of the ceremony has the baraat, the puja, pheras, and now an exc... Read More
India, April 4 -- Seen Mona Lisa? No, not the painting in the Louvre - the flower-seller at the Maha Kumbh who unwillingly found herself in the public eye because hundreds of devotees decided to captu... Read More