A Thousand Mornings

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Summer Kernel

Summers are a bowl full of nostalgia. What starts with raw mango pickles and tangy curries slowly turns sunshine yellow of the Alphonso. In the middle come the cashews, jamuns (black plum) and karvands (black currants). The season, maturing with the jackfruit, leading to more intensive recipes. The days of abandon spent wolfing down mangoes.…
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Books and Berries

The sprawling villas on both sides don’t point to a village. I’m about to double-back when the signboard declares that I’m still a kilometre away. The signs are all over the place – a book and strawberry, over the red type declaring Bhilar as India’s first “books village”. Located between the popular hill towns of Panchgani…
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Red velvet

After six days of trekking in the Kanchenjunga National Park, we returned to Yuksam with leaden feet and plenty of food cravings. A sleepy little village in West Sikkim, it’s the base for Dzongri and Goechala mountain pass. Come April and October, there are more trekkers milling about here than locals. The road to the park is…
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In step with heritage

“If you go back to the 16th century, the Portuguese had complete monopoly over the sea trade route to India from Europe,” begins Alisha Sadikot, who runs the Inheritage Project in Mumbai. “Jan Huygen van Linschoten, a name largely forgotten, changed all that. An assistant of sorts to the archbishop in Goa, his magnum opus Itenario [a…
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Hitting pause

It’s 9 a.m. The crowd is just starting to spill on to the road outside Chembur station. I try to move ahead, deftly avoiding the swathes of people on the way out, but Gopal MS has already bested me. He points to a newspaper stall that sells only Tamil magazines and talks about the local residents.…
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Category: Published

Summer Kernel

Books and Berries

Red velvet

In step with heritage

Hitting pause