The Joy of Trash
Column by M.J. Akbar - There is only one rational response to the classic airport offer: Buy one, save 10%; buy two, save 20%; buy three, save 40%. Buy nothing, save 100%. Cities once had airports. The same airport More...
Never Learning from History: An American Story
Column by John Grant – Do you remember the day when George W. Bush became the President of United States of America even after loosing the people’s mandate by a huge margin of 500,000 votes and yet was sworn More...
Pictorial story of Indian Malnutrition
Four-month-old Vishakha, who weighs 2.3 kg (5 lbs) and suffers from severe malnutrition, is carried at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh February More...
China’s inflation at 4.5 per cent
Beijing, CHINA – Country’s inflation has rose to 4.5 per cent in January owing to soaring food prices contributing tremendously to the reversal of a five month trend of easing prices. China’s inflation More...
The Making of China’s Epic Hard Landing
This is the first of the “Slumdog Economist” Column by Dee Woo - 1. The unsavory episodes of China’s economy: For the better part of 2011, my concern about Chinese economy was constantly aggravated More...
A ‘curry college’ to train Britons how to cook Indian food!
Coming soon: A “Curry College” in the UK where Britons from all backgrounds would be trained as chefs to satisfy people’s growing appetite for Indian food. The UK Communities Secretary, Eric Pickles, More...
Iranian Tank Girls
Photo & essay by Jenny Matthews – In 1999 I was commissioned by Marie Claire magazine to go to Iraq with writer Christine Aziz. Our assignment was a story on a group of Iranian exiles (the PMOI – More...
Over 100 konkani kilos and still want to eat?!
Typical south Indian banana leaf meal. By Sandhya Pai – In a sluggish yet curious glance, to any outsider, a regular meal at typical Gowda Saraswat Brahmin’s or GSB’s home would appear like a panorama More...
More than just Sushi
Osaka, Japan There is more than one reason why Osaka is dubbed as Japan’s kitchen or the Mecca of Gourmet Food. For long, it has been called kuidaore (literally meaning “bringing ruin upon oneself by extravagance More...
Give unused grains to poor: House panel
Indian Parliament Report by Annapurna Jha | New Delhi – Echoing the Supreme Court’s views, a parliamentary panel has now recommended that rice and wheat lying in godowns for three years should be More...
