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Stand in front of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, or the Madras High Court, or Mysore Palace, and you are looking at a category problem. The...
Read moreNavratri means simply nine nights, from the Sanskrit nava and ratri , and that plainness hides an unusual fact: the name describes a container rather than a single...
Read moreThe tandoor is one of the oldest continuously used cooking devices in the world, and also one of the most misunderstood. To most people outside South Asia it means a...
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Qawwali is the devotional singing of the Sufi shrines of South Asia, performed above all at the tombs of...
To understand Bengali cooking you have to start with water. The Bengal delta, split today between the...
Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, who signed his verse first as Asad and then as Ghalib, was born in Agra in 1797...
Almost every civilisation that has faced a seasonal water supply has built something to store it. What...
Parallel cinema is the name given to a loose body of Indian film making that ran alongside the commercial...
Christmas in Goa smells of coconut and hot fat weeks before it arrives. From late November, kitchens in...
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