There is something so phoney, so staged and so totally unnecessary about the controversy over the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb who died in 1707 that it tells us something about India’s politicians and how ...

1. The Hindustan Times did the first major honest Restaurant awards in Indian history. We called them the Crystals. Some of the awards were voted for by the readers of HT City and some were an ...

However I have been delighted to see that another version of Fried Chicken is now sweeping the world. This Korean Fried Chicken which beats most other versions because of the crisp texture of the ...

With Trump, you expect the unexpected. So India is right to hope things change. Because if they don’t, we could be in real trouble. It could really end up as a time that Made India Poor Again.

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 may have been the most unusual letter ever written by a chief minister in India. Firstly, it was an open letter addressed to all Indians. Secondly, it went out on X and received (when I last looked ...

No religion is subject to as many myths as Jainism. At school we were taught – in textbooks influenced by British historians – that Jainism and Buddhism were contemporaneous revolts against ...

This Beer Biceps Guy saga gets worse and worse. I did a column about it last week and in any case, you probably know the story so far. But even so here is some background to refresh your memory.