to his years through various international Four Seasons properties to his current avatar as General Manager of the Four Seasons on the Thai island of Koh Samui.

I was in Colombo when Dr Manmohan Singh tragically passed away. And in some strange way, there was a certain appropriateness about my choice of hotel. I was staying at the brand-new ITC Ratnadipa, ...

But there is one restaurant that defies this categorisation and combines history with Michelin starred cuisine. It’s not a curry house. And it’s not one of the smart new trendy restaurants. It is a ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

It didn’t help VP Singh, but it did transform politics in North India, which moved from battles over serious and topical issues to straightforward caste and communal calculations. It could well be ...

But this was the real thing, here in the real Italy and not in New York’s Little Italy or on some Hollywood backlot. There was such a potent mixture of devotion and joy in the air with a local band ...

Even if you have no interest in the luxury market, you will have noticed the number of luxury- related posts that are suddenly turning up on Instagram and other social media. Usually the point of a ...

The legitimate ‘fake’ paneer falls into the same category as mass-produced industrial ice cream (which manufacturers are now obliged to call ‘frozen dessert’ because it isn’t ice cream at all) and ...

Is there no escaping the golgappa? I recently went to a South Indian restaurant in Kuala Lumpur and there, among the starters, was a golgappa filled with Kerala flavours of prawn, tamarind and rasam.