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 ...

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 ...

So farewell then Vistara. You were a good airline and the Indian aviation scene is poorer for your passing. We shall all miss you.

So, it’s best to do what they did in Jahangir’s court. Eat an aromatic lamb pulao. Try a little haleem. And combine it all with a paneer samosa or a khandvi. Because good food has no religion, only ...

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 ...

It is a strange time in our country’s politics when a gangster is a major player in two different front page stories in the space of a few days. Not since the 1990s when Dawood Ibrahim found his way ...

Over the last week, people I respect from outside India have all asked me a variation of the same question: Why are Indians so angry about the charges levelled by the US and Canada regarding possible ...

Though we think of the hospitality industry in general terms, combining hotels and restaurants together when we speak of hospitality, there is an important difference between the two sectors that we ...

In all my years of travelling, there is one country I had never been to: Greece. When I mentioned this to friends abroad, they were surprised. But no Indian I spoke to thought it was at all odd.

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 ...