Handia — a desi fermented drink
A major tribal festival — Karma Puja is being celebrated in various indian states like Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. The Karma Puja is very…
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.”
Kahramana
There is a statue of a beautiful young girl carrying a jar and pouring water down and surrounded by another forty jars around her on the crossroads between the famous…
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…
An Iraqi dish tracing back to Mesopotamia
Iraqi cuisine has developed over the course of a long and rich history. Modern day Iraq is, after all, on the site of ancient Sumer, the “Cradle of Civilisation” founded…
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 — Myth, 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 myth behind Nowruz
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…
