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A Tour of The Anglo-Indian Kitchen Table

By kamla bhatt • May 10th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, Life, Video

A tour of the Anglo-Indian kitchen table with Bangalore-based Bridget White Kumar reveals a list of interesting sounding dishes like bubble and squeak, pepper water, Bengal Lancers shrimp curry, railway mutton curry, dak bunglow curry, Hussainy curry, foogath, pepper okra, bread pudding, carmel custard and shandy. Bridget deconstructs these dishes in the interview and takes us [...]

Leela Chander on 1930s Bangalore

By kamla bhatt • Apr 5th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Featured, India, Life

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Leela Chander is 91 years old, and in 1938 she came to Bangalore as a young bride. She arrived by train from Pune and settled down in Bangalore’s cantonment area, where she worked alongside her physician husband at his Dr. Chander’s Clinic on Mosque Road. What was Bangalore like in the 1930s? She shares her [...]

Celebrating Pongal in Pondicherry

By kamla bhatt • Jan 14th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, India, Life

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The Hindu festival Pongal is celebrated on 15th January all over South India. This harvest festival is to give thanks to the Sun god for a bountiful harvest, and takes place 21 days after the winter solstice. In the former French colony of Pondicherry there is an interesting tradition where the Catholics celebrate Pongal to [...]

Anglo-Indians Of India:Glenda Michelle Singh

By kamla bhatt • Dec 26th, 2010 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, India, Life, Video

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You probably have heard of Russell Peters, the Canadian comedian. But, did you know he is an Anglo-Indian? He is perhaps the best known Anglo-Indian in the world today. Famous Anglo-Indians include Hollywood actress Merle Oberon and singer Engelbert Humperdinck The Anglo-Indians are a diminishing minority of India. Glenda Michelle Singh, who grew up in Lucknow, India, shares [...]