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Prof. Pushpesh Pant on India: The Cookbook

By • Aug 23rd, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, People, Video
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Prof. Pushpesh Pant has written a handful of books on Indian cuisine. His best known is India: The Cookbook published in 2010. This comprehensive book contains 1,000 recipes from different parts of India. But, what is Indian food? What is Indian cooking? How has Indian cuisine evolved and changed over the years?  How do you [...]



India in 1947: Eunice D’Sa

By • Aug 15th, 2012 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, India, Life, Video
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India in 1947 what was it like? How did the young people react when India became independent on August 15, 1947?  What was the transition like? How did they learn the new national anthem? What did the young students learn in their geography classes in the 1940s? What was the map of India like?  For [...]



Bangalore: A Pensioner’s Paradise

By • Jun 28th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Featured, India, Life, Video
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Bangalore was a pensioner’s paradise in the 20thc. “It was a lively place and every town had a youth center,” says Glenn Webber, who grew up in Bangalore in the 1940s and 1950s. “Restaurants used to be open till 2-3 am,” says Mona Webber, his sister. Their conversation is peppered with names like MacIver Town, Tasker [...]



A Tour of The Anglo-Indian Kitchen Table

By • May 10th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, Life, Video
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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 [...]