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Plov: A pulao goes to Samarkand
August 10, 2023, 9:41 PM IST
The first thing I notice in Tashkent’s celebrated underground, even before the famous murals and ceilings, is a prominently displayed ad for a local university featuring a faculty member who was a Bengali, at least�?/p>
August 10, 2023, 9:41 PM IST
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Cultural capital, kabuli chana and college admissions
August 6, 2023, 3:00 AM IST
We ate dinner together in our family. The four of us and my grandfather. The staples of our conversation were “one more boring meal�?(usually me), “India is winning/losing�?(my brother), “there is a new�?/p>
August 6, 2023, 3:00 AM IST
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Khichdi to Egyptian koshari, and the magic of food beyond borders
June 4, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
My first time in Egypt, some 30 years ago, I met something they called koshari, a rice and brown lentils dish, with a tomato sauce, a garnish of browned onions and, unexpectedly, some macaroni. It�?/p>
June 4, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
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Sharbat Times: Beyond just surviving ever hotter summers
May 7, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
As a child I remember quite liking the searing heat of the high summer, that sense of being almost erased by the sun’s fierce gaze. There was high drama to be enjoyed �?the sudden,�?/p>
May 7, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
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Breaking roza, building bonds
April 2, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
It must have been Ramzan in the year 1980 when we had this great plan of walking from College Street in Kolkata to Zachariah Street to arrive just in time for the sunset, and the�?/p>
April 2, 2023, 5:00 AM IST
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Sing is king: A nutty way to solve India’s protein problem
March 5, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
My grandfather had his ways of being annoying �?such as spending a lot of money that he did not have �?but his social sympathies were broad. His best friend, for many years, was�?/p>
March 5, 2023, 6:00 AM IST
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How history and geography shape the way we eat
February 5, 2023, 4:03 AM IST
My mother had a book of recipes of the world, where America was, remarkably, represented by ‘New England Boiled Potatoes�? Being from the land where bland is banned, I thought it must be a joke�?
February 5, 2023, 4:03 AM IST
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Cake love in the land of gulab jamun
January 10, 2023, 1:31 PM IST
It was the day before Christmas. Waiting for a bus in Metiaburuj, the decrepit remains of what was once a very prosperous Muslim neighbourhood, I noticed an elderly man in a skull cap sitting on�?/p>
January 10, 2023, 1:31 PM IST
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No ifs and butts: New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep
January 9, 2023, 10:08 PM IST
I am at an age where there are only two people who really scold me, my mother and my doctor. “You have no butt left,�?she told me, referring to the fact that I, like�?/p>
January 9, 2023, 10:08 PM IST
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