This rare dish derives its name from 'vetrilai', the Tamil word for betel leaf.
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As good as Mammootty is playing Sundaram, we see this facet of his performance through two lenses: That of Sundaram being an offset to whatever we know about James, and that of Mammootty doing quintessentially Tamil tics, including enacting scenes from old Tamil movies like solo plays, observes Rohit Sathish Nair.
This simple dish of raw banana can be enjoyed with rasam and rice.
Garvit Kawatra, 19, from Delhi tells us how he changed his diet and lifestyle to lose 45 kg in four months.
A separate menu has been prepared for the 15 Indian patients -- all Keralites -- and the two United Kingdom nationals
The supermodel and Top Chef host's love for food will leave you hungry.
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The Akshaya Patra Foundation is unique as it aims to simultaneously battle two hardships many poverty-ridden Indians endure: starvation and lack of education.
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Rediff reader Varaprasad K from Bangalore explains what he likes about food in Andhra Pradesh.
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Mudiyor Kitchen serves food free of cost to the single, widowed and elderly who have no one to cook or care for them.
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For the first time in Tamil Nadu, a lion has died of coronavirus while nine others in the pride have tested positive for the infection at a zoo near Chennai, an official said.
At present, 2,265 villages were inundated and 1,12,667.06 hectares of crop area has been damaged across Assam, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.
Three tasty coconut-based vegetable recipes for your Onam Sadya.
Thomas G K shares pictures from a trip to Wayanad.
Some food historians believe idli was derived from some steamed rice preparations from Indonesia.
N Kalyanasundaram started saving up last year so that he could feed the hungry during the second COVID lockdown.
Dietician Komal Jethmalani provides expert help.
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.
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Over 540 animals, including 13 rhinos, have perished in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam during the current wave of floods, perhaps the worst-ever to hit the park in recent history. Hog deer are the worst hit with 465 of them succumbing to flood waters which have inundated nearly 80 per cent of the Park's area.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
Rediff reader Ramesh Menon shares his experience of eating on Indian Railways.
Musings on love, life and everything in between.
At the edge of the Shola forest, at the foot of the Ayyasamy Hills, in western Tamil Nadu, near Coimbatore, lives a writer and scholar who traveled to India from northern France over three decades ago and never went home. Michel Danino, who 'loves chapattis, sambar, yoga and everything Indian', has devoted his life to studying Indian culture/heritage and history, authoring several books both in French and English on India.
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The staff and security personnel are performing their duties using mechanised and country boats to deal with any kind of eventualities, they said.
'Having failed in the Test series, he could be the most dangerous man in the ODIs', said the Australian captain.
