Alkanna Tinctoria (Coming soon)
All about Kashmiri Pundit cuisine and Rogan Josh.
Category: Travels
Royalty
India has a population of over 1.2 billion people. After 1947, it became a democracy. Today, these 1.2 billion people collectively make up the largest elected democracy in the world. Historically, India used to be a cluster of independent kingdoms, later united under one republic. These kingdoms used to be ruled, naturally, by kings. Kings…
4 states (coming soon)
A tropical cyclone(“HudHud”) hit the eastern coast of India in October 2014. Due to this, I was unable to travel to the state of Tamil Nadu. In this post, I attempt to find out what makes the cuisines of these Four southern states(Kerala,Karnataka,Andhra/Telangana region and Tamil Nadu) so different from each other.
Biryani Chronicles (Part II)
The following is an excerpt from my 3 part article on Biryani. (The Biryani Chronicles) Calcutta (Part 2) A plateful of aromatic rice with a couple of slabs of goat or chicken is a snack and meal rolled in one on Kolkata’s bustling streets. At his “Biryani Corner” fronting a busy intersection, 45-year-old Shibu Das…
God’s Own Country
Communism, they say, is dead. Post the dissolution of the USSR, only a handful of countries wave the red flag with the hammer and sickle. It’s interesting that, today, Kerala has the only elected Communist government within the most populated democracy in the world. Unlike West Bengal, which was ruled by a Communist party for 40…