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.

Judging by the events of the last week, they are not a straight forward rerun of the so called India Against Corruption movement. They are not as well organised. There are no RSS -manufactured crowds.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would you let your children eat food cooked by the Hare Krishna movement? (Or the International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON to give it the full title.) It may sound like a strange ...

Two developments only a few days apart shed light on both the row over the SIR process and the controversy about citizenship which is now seeming to be an integral part of the dubious SIR process. The ...

In the West (and especially in America) a restaurant reservation can be the social equivalent of a gold brick. To be able to get a table at a top restaurant is a mark of status. People will wait weeks ...

It’s the one London hotel where, over the last four decades, nearly every Indian of consequence from Prime Ministers to superstars like Amitabh Bachchan has stayed. It is also the most successful ...