When minds meet

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Yamilicious!

During her visit to Indore, Aparna Pallavi tickles her taste buds with crispy fried purple yam or garadu and discovers the health benefits of the …

Traditionally sumptuous

Multigrain food is not new. It has been part of the Indian diet since ancient times and comes in multitude of combinations

Ferment food for the gut

Almost all communities in India have festivals that revolve around stale food high on probiotics

Sweet and sticky

Easy-to-digest saathi rice is a good choice for making kheer and khichdi

Come alive with gundruk

Dried-mustard-leaves soup to beat the monsoon blues

Two worlds that never meet

Video Essay>> Dont cut my head off • by Somnath Batabyal, Matti Pohjonen, Kazimuddin Ahmed and Pradip Saha • produced in …

Gulp it down the cool way

Thambli, a decoction of herbs, and a soothing drink

Another board

Unity in diversity

Songs of leaves and rain

Documentary >> An Ode to Marang Buru directed by Ambuja Kumar Satpathy Produced by Vasundhara 56 mins

Goodness of the unpolished

The popularity of polished white rice has killed the red and black varieties that have medicinal properties. A few Tamil Nadu farmers are …

Crunchy, juicy devil's backbone

The succulent can strengthen bones, while keeping cold and cough at bay

Butter fruit

Shalini Dhyani explores the forgotten virtues of mahua fruit and seed oil

Fast foods

Reason to celebrate?

The biodiversity bill has finally been approved by the Parliament standing committee on science, technology and the environment. But is the way …

Book notice: Samagra Vikas

Diverse: this word best describes the compilation. The sources from which the articles are drawn are diverse -- The Hindu, New Scientist, Span …

Ayurvedic way of curing migraine

The Dalit experts

Multimedia Publication >> Affirming Life and Diversity Rural Images and Voices on Food Sovereignty in South India 60 pages (book/report) + …

Film review Birth In The Squatting Position

Films>> Birth in the Squatting Position by Polymorph Films 1979 (10 mins, Brazil) The business of being born by Abby Epstein (83 mins, USA) …

Is information knowledge?

Book>> The Information, A History, A Theory, A Flood • by James Gleick • Fourth Estate • Rs 599

Educative entertainment

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A taste of mountains

Jakhiya seeds are used for tempering almost all types of vegetables and curries in the Garhwal region

Taste of sting

Shalini Dhyani shares the many virtues of Himalayan giant nettle, called bichhu ghas

Power packed green

Leafy vegetable that is a great substitute for spinach