There are few culinary ingredients that magically transform from the utterly unpalatable to surprising bursts of delightful flavour when processed or cooked in a certain way. Asafoetida (Hing) is an example that is yet to catch the eye of the international culinary cognoscenti; transforming from a root sap of the Ferula plant that grows in […]
Impossible to tell a river’s story. Ancient wisdom says: it flows and, therefore, is never the same. The river had coursed through swirling mist and searing light, since before the forests took hold and became near impenetrable, since much before the human settlements and civilizations had taken root. She had seen humans arrive in small […]
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learnt about life: it goes on” -Robert Frost “Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy” -Virginia Woolf “La tristesse durer a toujours” – the sadness will last forever -Vincent Van Gogh “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who […]
Hierarchy – placed sideways? Crosslinking than a flow downwards. If only it implied a way of decision making without subservience? As one grows, does one increasingly live in one’s own world; not seeing? A still mind has left me. Earlier, it was a visitor giving joy. Now always teeming thoughts. It was a wintry afternoon. […]
Pankaj Tripathi Ms. Pritchard looked out of the dormitory window. On the sandy ground, a level below, a group of boys with feathered headbands was being chased by a group of cowboys. The squared glass panes cut off the sound of intermittent gunfire and arrows swooshing. She could only see them ducking and weaving to […]
The second Mughal Emperor Humayun was known to be immensely fond of Sherbet or Sharbat and loved fruit-derived/flavoured coolers. We do not know if Humayun had also relished the Falsa sharbat in the summers of 16th century or not, but it is definitely a beverage fit for royalty as well as the common folk as […]
We lost Shardul on May 7. He was in his forties – healthy, full of life, an engaging conversationalist, a bird, rather nature, enthusiast, and a great brother. All in all, adorable and strong. A few months earlier, he had established a state-of-the-art dairy unit near Varanasi with help from his younger brother and other […]
This is the story of Dr. Vedaprakash, a Vidyadhan Scholar, who after completing his MBBS from Bangalore Medical College, is currently pursuing MS in General Surgery from the prestigious JIPMER, Puducherry. With the second wave of COVID-19 causing havoc across the nation and posing a huge challenge to the healthcare system of India, Dr. Vedaprakash […]
PHUTKAL is a name that rolls off the tongue effortlessly. You want to keep repeating it :-) In Purabiya (Hindi), the sound conjures images of sprouting shoots at the dawn of spring. The deciduous forests around Ranchi in Jharkhand, in fact the entire Chhota Nagpur plateau, bursts with colourful shoots in early spring every year […]
THE INDIAN SUB CONTEXT – NPC-AMASR AND CORRELATING THE BURRA AND INTACH CHARTERS 25. In the Indian context, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)’s National Policy for Conservation of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (NPC-AMASR) attempts to incorporate the “Values Based Approach” in Section 5 titled “Conservation of Monuments” and functionally link the […]
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