In a pristine and remote mountain hamlet, dreams are now made of cheese. One ‘Cheese Wheel’ at a time. While stoic Kashmiri women rewrite their…
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Category: Culture
Who loves you when you’re failing, falling, breaking apart?
Not the sleepless nights you endure. They see the results you put on paper. Not the battles you fight behind closed doors By Umesh Kumari No one loves…
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Home and hearth in Kashmir
After the professional lecture, we had a bit of chit chat. We wanted to know much more about Kashmiri cuisine. She told us about multiple dishes…
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Srebrenica Echoes: A Tribute to Agony and Resilience
In the silence, the cries of the past echo loudly, urging us to never forget and ensure that the horrors of genocide are consigned to…
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‘She lives nice in marriage, they just need some salt’
The Srebrenica Genocide left an indelible mark on Bosnia. In Sarajevo, the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide stands as a solemn reminder of…
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A deep, deep feeling is breathing again…
Books. A book of forgotten songs by Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen. A book with a film script by Satyajit Ray. A book called ‘Small…
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Aindham Vedham: Mumbo-Jumbo, etc…
Indic mythology and scriptures are so rich in symbolism that a plot like Aindham Vedham, if handled sensitively, could have delivered a masterpiece. Instead, it badly…
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Write a letter, will you?
The beauty of a handwritten letter is that it stays with you. When you receive a letter, it’s not just a momentary thing—it’s a memory.…
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Oh, Mythical Nectar, Come, Enter my Soul too…
Let the amrit, the nector, of this churning enter our hearts and souls. Not as a myth, but as an everyday reality. Let it purify…
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The irony: Fat potatoes but lean farmers
In striking contrast to the improved and increased yield at this farm set up in 1972, the workers’ lives move in the reverse direction, nothing…
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