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This winter get your mango fix from Ratnagiri
Surmayi Khatana
THE big problem for fruit-growers is what to do with their perishable produce if they can’t find buyers during the ...
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A Sunday with bees: Beekeeper shares his world
Surmayi Khatana
YOU may have heard of bees migrating with the changing seasons but a person migrating with his bees is surely ...
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Brilliant new Goan beer brings back lost rice strain
Derek Almeida
WHEN Suraj Shenai launched rice beer in the Goan market in June this year, it was more than just another ...
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Don’t sell an old machine, better to just recycle it
Civil Society News
DO you know where your PC and its monitor went when you dumped them after they couldn’t be cranked up ...
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A fitting farewell with the Noble Sparrows
Surmayi Khatana, New Delhi
SUNK in grief after losing their loved ones to COVID-19, many families had to undergo the painful process of performing ...
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Up close, safe and customized
Surmayi Khatana
IS your skin too sensitive for just any soap? Does your curly hair need something special to shampoo with? Are ...
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Authentic Kerala meal from 265 homes, 70 toddy shops
Susheela Nair
IF you want to figure out Malayali food, how should you go about it? One way would be to spend ...
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Cold Love is here with artisanal ice-cream
Surmayi Khatana
WHEN you decide to move on, what can sweetly put the past behind you? Ice-cream, for one. Gorge on it, ...
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If you are off dairy, try the goodness of nut milk
Surmayi Khatana, New Delhi
IF you are lactose intolerant, have dietary restrictions or are just vegan by choice, chances are you are looking out ...
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Healthy basics: Vegetarian recipes from the Himalayas
Civil Society Reviews
WHEN environmentalist Vandana Shiva started Navdanya Café in Delhi in early 2000 or thereabouts, the wholesome menu and organic values ...
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Looking for ethical cheese? Try Käse in Chennai
Surmayi Khatana
IF you are looking for interesting cheese to buy, you had better first know what you are getting into. The ...
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Watch out for Wild Wild Women of hip hop
Surmayi Khatana
IN the midst of graffitied walls in Andheri East in Mumbai, seven women found a common beat to vibe to ...
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Great fruit wine with those Himachali roots
Raj Machhan, Himachal Pradesh
FRUIT wines have their own charm, especially if they come from Himachal Pradesh and are made from the wonderful fruits ...
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Innocent jam with heart from artisanal efforts
Civil Society Reviews, New Delhi
WHEN your boyfriend’s mother puts effort and love into making delicious jams and chutneys the family adores, what do you ...
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It's a tree, it's a bird, it's Black Baza coffee!
Civil Society Reviews, Gurugram
Should a coffee be named after a tree? Or a coffee company after a bird? Of course, that’s so apt. ...
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When apricots arrive from heaven in an SUV
Civil Society Trends. Gurugram
They are small, juicy, sweet, bright orange in colour and very nutritious. The kind of goodness that is packed into Halman ...
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Camel milk anyone? It’s out on shelves
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
Monisha Ashokan recalls that if she didn't like eating breakfast before dashing off to school, her mother would insist that ...
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Comedians readily go online with a laugh
Sidika Sehgal
You can’t shut up a stand-up comedian. Faced with cancelled shows and a grim future, this creative tribe has found a ...
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Will the Kunbi weave survive?
Ashwini Kamat
Babu rao Babaji Tilve’s face lights up as he takes down the tarpaulin covering his loom and weaving tools. “I ...
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Pirates, camels, parrots in Raghubir Nagar
Sidika Sehgal
Raghubir Nagar, a low-income settlement of about 900 jhuggis in West Delhi, is an eye-catching sight. The walls and doors of ...
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Festivals, fairs and rituals
India’s fascinating world of fairs, festivals and rituals came alive at an exhibition organised by Essen Communications at Karnataka Chitrakala ...
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Art meets social change at Khoj
Sidika Sehgal, New Delhi
In 1997, Khoj International Artists’ Association began as an annual workshop with local and international artists with the intention of ...
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Alternative bookstore holds its own in Goa
Arti Das, Mapusa
The Other India Bookstore (OIB) at Mapusa in Goa is unlike any other bookshop. Lined with books from the floor ...
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Remembering Azmi, the poet of hope
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
In today’s climate, it is important to remember people who used their art as an instrument of social change: it ...
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Weaving history and carpets in Mirzapur
Susheela Nair, Mirzapur
The oldest hub of carpet weaving in India is Mirzapur in Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh. The Ganga flows past ...
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Aisi Taisi races against reality
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
The big challenge before India’s standup comedians, as Varun Grover says in a promotional video for Aisi Taisi Democracy (ATD), ...
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A nursery for a Sunday bazaar
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
When Arjun Sahani, a mountaineer, found farmers growing crops organically in the upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh, he started a ...
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Shaadi bands to maestros in music museum
Susheela Nair, Bengaluru
The Indian Music Experience (IME), India’s only high-tech interactive music museum, is Bengaluru’s latest cultural hub. Sprawled across 50,000 square ...
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At Sunder Nursery, history and nature come together
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
New Delhi now has a vast green space in the middle of the city with resplendent trees, a sparkling lake, ...
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Goa heritage: Mapping beautiful old homes
Derek Almeida, Panaji
Goa is practically littered with mesmerising houses and government buildings that hark back to 450 years of colonial rule. So ...
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Skydiving to Kambla to skiing and more
Civil Society News, Bengaluru
About 100 eye-catching pictures were displayed at an exhibition on ‘The Great Outdoors’ at Karnataka Chitrakal Parishath in Bengaluru over ...
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With solar and LED vaastu home can be hi-tech too
Susheela Nair, Bengaluru
As I stepped into Sankrithi, the dream home of Shivakumar, an entrepreneur in Bengaluru, I was struck by the feeling ...
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Slavery across the world
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
Every eight minutes a child goes missing without a trace in India. But children certainly aren’t the only victims of ...
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The marginalised mother
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
The choicest epithets – wicked, mean, cruel – are often flung at hapless stepmothers. Such stereotypes are reinforced by a ...
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Women in a man's world
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
A much-hyped annual beauty pageant and a secretive Hindu extremist women’s training camp are worlds so far apart from each ...
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World tucks into Lunchbox
Saibal Chatterjee, Cannes/New Delhi
Of all the Indian films that were screened in Cannes this year, the standout was Ritesh Batra’s debut feature, The ...
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Making a jolly good point
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
When writer-director Subhash Kapoor’s third feature film, Jolly LLB, opened in the multiplexes on the Ides of March, few expected ...
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Magic Men of Mayong
Civil Society News, New Delhi
The ‘magical’ place is only a 40-km drive from Guwahati, but few youngsters in the capital city of Assam, hooked ...
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The wayward river
Saibal Chatterjee, New Delhi
Ten years in the making, Char-The No Man’s Island, posed daunting physical and logistical challenges. But much like the mighty ...
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Sifting fact from fiction
Arjun Sen, New Delhi
PEGGY Mohan’s second novel, The Youngest Suspect, is a fictionalized account of what happens when young Muslim boys are brutalized ...
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