But that’s not true: Punjabis don’t actually eat much chicken. The average consumption of chicken in Punjab is 200 grams a ...

But despite these problems and the challenges, India works. The country has rarely been as politically polarised as it is today. But no matter how much we disagree we still agree on the need to make ...

It’s never been easier for Indians to go to the Maldives. A year ago, if you believed the hype, it was all over between Delhi and Male. A newly elected government had focused on an anti-India platform ...

The story of Garima Arora is remarkable by any standards, not just because of what she has achieved but because of how ...

The Mithi is one example. But in nearly every city where there is flooding you will find that part of the problem is that politicians have sanctioned construction in areas that affect the flow of ...

The James Bond references are appropriate because The Man With The Golden Gun was filmed in the area and local legend has it that Bill Heinecke owns the actual golden gun that Scaramanga, played by ...

It’s easy to jump to conclusions. Four years ago everyone I spoke to in the West said meat-eating was in decline. We had recognised the danger that methane emissions (from the farming of livestock ...

Chocolate is the smell of my childhood. I would wake up every morning to chocolate aromas wafting up to the top of Mumbai’s Cumballa Hill where I lived. On Peddar Road, at the bottom of the hill, in a ...

Do you think clubs, hotels and restaurants should have dress codes? I suspect that the answer is complicated. Of course any establishment has the right to choose how it wants its guests to dress but ...

There are, wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, no second acts in American lives. I was reminded of this and about how it clearly did not apply to Indian lives when I had lunch last week with Ranjit Mathrani at ...

Yes, it’s okay to feel bad for Jagdeep Dhankar no matter what your views on his performance as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha or as Governor of Bengal before that were. No Vice President of India ...

Because this column is about the tragic Air India crash at Ahmedabad airport I want to begin with some qualifications before we go much further. I am, by no means, an aviation expert. But then, nor ...