The quintessential Indian snack: Samosa
No evening snack in India can be complete without tea and the quintessential samosa. Samosa is my favourite snack. While enjoying samosa and tea at home in the evening, I…
Category: History & Heritage
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Iraqi dishes tracing back to Mesopotamian civilization
Yesterday, one of our colleagues invited us to his house for traditional Iraqi lunch. Iraqi cuisine has developed over the course of a long and rich history. Modern day Iraq is,…
Byblos — an oldest city in the world
Today, we were discussing on some historical places. Byblos came into the discussion. I remembered my visits to this ancient Phoenician port city of Gebal (called Byblos by the Greeks)…
Malana — Mythology, Democracy and Hash
We left for Kasol in Himachal Pradesh from Amritsar (Punjab) by car. My batchmate Vikram and I wanted to visit Parvati valley. Vikram stays in Amritsar. It was almost evening when…
Bullet marks at Jallianwala Bagh
Ninety-eight years ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Indians at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (Punjab). The firing…
Kurdish mythology behind Nowruz celebration
In countries and cultures across the Middle East and Central Asia, Nowruz (or Newroz, or Norouz or Nauroz or several other variant spellings that shift from city to city across…
Kunafeh: Sweet Cheese Pastry
Today, we went to Mansour Mall in the evening. We thought of having Kunafeh (sweet cheese pastry) and so we walked into MADO Cafe. MADO is a Turkish ice-cream brand and has…
Iraq’s marshes named World Heritage site
A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden — the Ahwar of southern Iraq, has now become a UNESCO world heritage site, reports Reuters. Fed by the Tigris…
