Being semi-prone in public has been seen as both a sign of weakness and power.

It takes one cramped journey in a non-airconditioned car or time spent outdoors and the red blisters burst across our skin, sharply painful...

We may no longer dry papads at home in summer, but this uniquely Indian product deserves to be celebrated.

Papaya is so ideally suited to India’s climate that most farms and gardens had them growing almost without realising it.

Lighting lamps is the essence of Diwali. It gives its name to the festival & illuminates its nights. Lamps welcome Lakshmi in & keep away b...

Butter fruit is an appropriate Indian name for creamy fleshed avocados and this was a sign of how far they have come. They used to be rare.