Britain’s outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron spiced up his ‘last supper’ at his 10 Downing Street office/home with Indian food such as Hyderabadi Saffron Chicken, Kashmiri Rogan Josh and Samosas. Kennington Tandoori in central London tweeted last evening that it had delivered Cameron’s “last supper”. “The dishes include Hyderabadi Saffron Chicken, Kashmiri Rogan Josh, Nasheeli Gost, KT Mixed Grill (Lamb and Chicken), Chicken Zalfrazi, Saag Alloo, Saag Paneer, Palak Gost, […]

  Two hundred writers – including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Hari Kunzru – have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise issues of freedom of expression and intolerance with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, who began his three-day visit on Thursday. An open letter by the writers to Cameron was prominently published on the front page of The Guardian, which also carried similar letters from a large number […]

LONDON: He has managed to stand his ground against hawks like UKIP leader Nigel Farage, coalition partner turned critic Nick Clegg and his primary tormentor and prime minister hopeful Labour leader Ed Miliband.   But Britain’s prime minister David Cameron was left stumped on Tuesday by a bouncer coming from an unlikely foe – a 10 year-old.   With just over 20 days to go before Britain goes into what […]

LONDON: David Cameron has expressed his desire to see a British-Asian Prime Minister in his lifetime. The British prime minister is known to be a great friend of India and has earlier said he wants to see more Indians as part of Britain’s judiciary, armed forces and politics. Cameron said at a leadership award recently, “Let us think big about what Britons of all backgrounds can achieve. When I hear […]

By making a statement of regret over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, David Cameron has opened up a can of other questions and grievances over Britain’s colonial past. What about the British museum returning all the treasures looted from India during the Raj? What about sending back the Kohinoor diamond still embedded in Queen Elizabeth’s crown? And many commenting on this blog say it shouldn’t stop at India – what about the many casualties of […]

David Cameron has become the first serving UK prime minister to pay his respects at the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres in British history. Mr Cameron is visiting Amritsar in the state of Punjab on Wednesday, at the end of a three-day trade trip to India. This was where hundreds of people at a public meeting were shot dead by British troops in 1919. The prime minister described […]