India
Colonial cringe
Gymkhana is a fashionable Indian restaurant in Albemarle Street. It was, according to its natty website, ‘inspired by Colonial Indian…
Wild life
England We dropped off our daughter Eve at her new school in the Midlands and started the long journey…
Fabled splendours
Peter Parker on the age-old allure of the Indian subcontinent
Stirrings of mutiny
Mysore, once the capital of a princely kingdom in South India, has lost its lustre. In Mahesh Rao’s darkly comic…
A lovable failure
Sebastian Barry’s new novel opens with a bang, as a German torpedo hits a supply ship bound for the Gold…
Delhi’s underbelly
India’s vast polluted capital, where brutality, corruption and ruthless self-seeking are endemic, could be the blueprint of the future, says Peter Parker
The perils of partition
John Keay’s excellent new book on the modern history of South Asia plunges the reader head first into some wildly…
The new persecution
It’s time the world paid more attention to assaults against Christians
