Posts Tagged ‘Anglo-Indians of Bangalore’

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 [...]



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 [...]