I first got to know Kalyan, the famous Indian food blogger, as an author of the Travel-Food Memoir (The Travelling Belly: Eating Through India's By-Lanes) while researching the connection between food and death in different cultures.…
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I embrace my Indian heritage more after I received my Heritage DNA test result which stated that I was 100% pureblood South Indian.…
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There is only one dish I would publicly admit that someone else cooks better than my Amma. The dish is a South Indian street food known as vadai (or vada or vade). And the person who beats Amma in making it is a white-bearded old man who owns a small food stall, Bhai Sarbat, on…
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In my dream, I stay in an apartment right above Little India. I manage a cultural publication solely dedicated to Little India and spend my days writing about everything about it.…
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One of the very few highlights of going to work was on a very few random days, Uncle Murthi would come and ask us whether we wanted his homemade (made by his wife) fish curry+idiyappam combo. The answer had always been “YES UNCLE!“. I then would spend the next few days dreaming about it…
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I always find it amusing to say: "I am an Indian who has never been to India" to anyone who would listen. I can't say it any longer.…
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My highly rested, Inspired brain was fighting the routine this morning. I couldn’t bring myself to wake up on time or snooze. I was about to be late for work, so naturally, I decided to let it be and went to BK to have King’s breakfast and sat there until 10 am before I…
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Little India is the one place that I wouldn’t miss going to every time I visit Singapore. There are many things to do, discover, and feast.…
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Henna art has its own significance in Indian traditions and culture from weddings to medical. The Indian culture has great traditional value for it.…
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I love the tea traditions that each country has. I am a tea lover. I love tea mugs and the ritual of pouring the tea into them.…
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