The India that is not Bharat...

A battle for a glass of red wine ends happily when an Air India traveller magnanimously accepts whiskey instead, reports B S Prakash.Illustration: Uttam GhoshSix years ago, when I was the Indian......

Halibut on White House menu for Dr Singh

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs Gursharan Kaur will get a taste, literally, of White House hospitality at the gala dinner tonight. The White House has a long tradition of dining table finesse......

How good are South African wines?

The first time I tasted South African wine was in 1987 when a bunch of us from United Breweries had gone down to Mauritius for a beer conference.Even though the wines were served by tap, they were......

Check out these Australian wines

When Frank Baum wrote the eponymous book back in 1900, little did he know that the Australians (who sometimes also call their country "Oz") would perform quite a bit of wizardry with wine a century......

Nashik, the wine capital of India

Not many people are aware that a host of new wineries have come up in Maharashtra in the last two years, following the forward-looking 'Grape Processing Industrial Policy' of the state government......

'Politics in Indian cricket was sickening'

'I was actually appointed captain for the West Indies tour (in 1971).''But Mr Vijay Merchant (the then chairman of the selectors) didn't like me nor did he like 'Tiger' Pataudi. He thought we were......

Wellington: The score... and more

The second Twenty20 international between India and New Zealand will be played at the Westpacstadium in Wellington on February 27.The venue hashosted just a solitary Twenty20 international, between......