Hindu festivals are now becoming occasions when anti-Muslim hatred is expressed freely through slogans and songs that are full of abuse against Muslims or calls to either kill them or humiliate them, observes Apoorvanand.
Rashme Sehgal took a ride on the Gatimaan Express for you.
'The BJP and RSS may realise it is much easier for the ICHR to rewrite textbooks and for the ICSSR to float its bizarre interpretations on social themes than to keep people away from their favourite dishes.'
Mini Ribeiro tells you how to make the most of winter spices.
During the day, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan held a meeting to review preparedness for COVID-19 management, through video conference with health ministers, chief secretaries of all states and UTs, central ministers and representatives from the related organisations and stressed on the need for keeping testing and quarantine facilities, isolation wards, and labs in active readiness.
'The most important aspect of Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the use of humour to touch some sensitive and potentially explosive political-religious and cultural subjects.'
Two entrepreneurs launched iTiffin with an aim to provide low calorie, healthy tiffin service to corporates and individuals.
Culinary legend Satish Arora hangs up his apron after almost 5 decades of service at the Taj group of hotels.
'So South Indian, it would be idli with... a really good sambar, and then north Indian -- probably any kind of tikka.' Hmm. You can take a girl out her mom's country, but you can't take the country out of the girl!'
'I come from a humble background and didn't even know how to speak Hindi, let alone English. I used to feel apologetic about this until I realised that food has its own language and that kept me connected with my passion,' Vikas Khanna tells Rajul Hegde/ Rediff.com
'She didn't eat beans, disliked spinach, abhorred peas, but mostly she wouldn't eat things the name of which she didn't know, which seemed to consist of the entire vegetable kingdom.' 'For some reason, she finds even dahi unpalatable,' sighs Kishore Singh.
'Given this dissonance between India's age-old multicultural tenets and the anti-minority temper of the present times, it cannot be easy for the BJP to maintain its balancing act to convince the world that all is well,' observes Amulya Ganguli.
Tarla Dalal, noted food writer, chef, best-selling cookbook author and host of cooking shows, passed away on Wednesday morning.
Water is going to be a central part of the government's 2024 election campaign. And Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's work will be crucial for it.
'I was told to go to the next room and strip -- that's when it really hits you for the first time... that you are a criminal and you are being treated like one.' 'It comes as a shock when, instead of your name, you hear, "Yeh naya Maowadi aaya hai (A new Maoist has arrived)".'
Do away with the table salt. A reduction in the intake of salt can help control various kidney problems.
The relative ranking of castes can vary across regions and localities and depends on a number of factors including control over land, wealth, and political power. Castes have often tried to 'upgrade' themselves (a process sociologists refer to as Sanskritization), and sometimes get 'downgraded'. A revealing excerpt from Upinder Singh's Ancient India: Culture Of Contradictions.
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Start your day with tulsi and ginger tea, suggests Dr Vivek Chandel.
Some food historians believe idli was derived from some steamed rice preparations from Indonesia.
'The best way to make an impact in this market is by focusing on three things: Unmet customer need, unarticulated customer need, and emerging customer need,' Metro's Arvind Mediratta tells Sangeeta Tanwar and Alokananda Chakraborty.
Banning meat is cruel demonetisation. It is stealing from the poor, nothing less, writes Sunita Narain.
'At home, being vegan is no real problem, and other than dairy (dahi, chhaas, ghee and kadhi) I can eat normally.' 'There is, of course, the eschewing of meat and as someone who likes (should I say liked?) Naga pork and beef steaks, and has eaten snake and dog, going vegan is unusual,' says Aakar Patel.
'Respect nature, working with (it) rather than against it.'
Harnoor Channy Tiwari tells you just where you should be heading if you're in the Capital.
Dr Pranveer Singh from Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh shares his experience of having poor quality meals served in the Azad Hind Express.
Shahid Afridi admits that veteran opener Gautam Gambhir is not someone with whom he would be found in a 'coffee shop'.
A virologist answers questions on the deadly virus presently haunting the world.
India is ready, after battling the pandemic for two years, to travel once again.
What goes behind the scenes for an American President's visit?
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
Readers reminisce their bitter sweet experiences of ordering meals in the Indian Railways.
Indians who live away from home tells us how they are celebrating the winter harvest festival.
'Never lose your optimism. Never lose your aspiration and never -- even if India becomes a prosperous consumer society -- never ever lose that shining light in your eyes,' advises Dr Peter McLaughlin, headmaster of the Doon School.
Sunny Leone tells us what she loves to eat.
Have you tasted Besan ke ladoo cookies?
'There was never really a doubt, but now it can be conclusively stated that the prime minister has unusual mental and physical stamina,' says Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com who is covering Narendra Modi's visit to the United States.
Vibha Harish is trying to create long-lasting health through natural forms of nutrition.
Aditi Mammen Gupta, who hails from the family that started Malayala Manorama, MRF Tyres & Funskool, tells us about her start-up.
