Heston has been successfully treated for his disorder and his life is back to normal. He is calmer and sharper now than he has been for the last few years. So I thought he might want to keep quiet ...

Why is there nothing we can do about it? Why are we so helpless that we watch impotently as Delhi becomes the world’s most polluted city? It is because all we can do is watch as politicians lose ...

Chancel’s principle is that if it wants to offer the ultimate luxury experience, the hotel mustn’t worry about costs. If a guest feels pampered, he or she will come back often enough to keep your ...

Now that India has registered its responses to the allegations that it tried to organise assassinations in Canada and the USA, it is time to look at the issue with less emotion and a little more ...

Few Indian food terms are as misused as Mughlai. Wikipedia tells us that Mughlai refers to the food of the Mughals which sounds fair enough but then the entry goes on to bracket so-called Mughal ...

It is a measure of how much resentment there is of us Gujaratis in certain circles that a news item about the number of Gujaratis who try and enter the US illegally every year has provoked much ...

What if you could have dinner at a restaurant that existed for just one brief shining moment? Where, if you went back, a day or two later, there would be no sign that the restaurant with its elaborate ...

All over the world people rave about Asian service. The people who do the raving are mostly westerners who cannot conceive of a situation in which relatively poorly paid service staff (poorly paid by ...

You were a good airline and the Indian aviation scene is poorer for your passing. We shall all miss you. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let me say that I don’t think Vistara was a great ...