New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Lemons are everywhere on the Amalfi Coast: in market stalls, on ceramics, flavouring everything from pasta to pastries, and in countless glasses of limoncello. But to understand ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Located on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth, the estuary where the River Forth meets the North Sea, Edinburgh is, in my extremely biased opinion, one of the world's most ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- Standing at my window, I watch Piazza della Repubblica wake up. The semicircular piazza is framed by the remains of the Baths of Diocletian, built at the beginning of the 4th cen... Read More
India, Oct. 13 -- She sold 750 million books, but you would be hard-pressed to find one in a bookshop today. Barbara Cartland wrote 723 books over more than seven decades. They were translated into 38... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 10 -- Stale bread, a pot of beans, a few vegetables from the garden: in an Italian kitchen, these became ribollita (soup) or panzanella (salad). This is cucina povera, literally "poor ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 6 -- The first Jeffrey Archer I picked up was Shall We Tell the President? Those were the days when a book could hold my attention for hours. The cover's promise, "6 days, 13 hours and... Read More
India, Oct. 6 -- Four days before he died, Jeffrey Archer was making plans. "On Saturday 10th October at 7pm I will be discussing my final novel Adam & Eve at the Cheltenham Festival," he posted on so... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Asia's drinking traditions are as varied as its food, shaped by local grains, fruits, palms, climate, and agriculture. Sake and baijiu are internationally recognised, but many oth... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- It is raining in Weligama, enough for most people to wait out the showers indoors. But I spot people in the sea as I drive past the bay. They're surfing. "The rain doesn't stop ... Read More
India, Oct. 1 -- Years after everyone else, I finally started watching The Tudors. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer is Anne Boleyn, and the familiar story of the king and his six ... Read More