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January 11, 2017
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture

Butter Chicken: The Emperor of Salivating Gluttons

The fascinating journey of Butter Chicken can be traced to a tiny eatery in the old city of Delhi. It rose to international acclaim and to being the staple dish...

December 28, 2016
Lily Swarn
Food

Chaat: An Antidote Prescribed by Hakims of a Moghul Emperor is Pan-Indian Delicacy

A legend goes that the hakims of a Mughal ruler told him that the water of the Yamuna River was harmful and must not be consumed. Since the emperor did...

December 21, 2016
Lily Swarn
Food, History & Culture

The Antiquity and Tradition of the Christmas cake

The origin and ancestry of Christmas shows us that it was actually an English tradition and that the cake was originally a plum porridge, which was eaten on Christmas Eve to...

November 25, 2016
Arindam Roy
Awards & Honours

First Anniversary of Different Truths: Felicitations and Team DT

Different Truths completes one year at the strike of the midnight hour, in India. A year back, two Founders dared to dream. Soon it became a shared vision. Poets and...

November 11, 2016
Anumita Roy
Food

Five Layered Bean Dip: Yummy Americanised Mexican Starter

Five layered Bean Dip is an Americanised Mexican food. Its history is hard to trace. This dip has many ingredients readily available in cans and packets; it cannot be called...

November 9, 2016
Lily Swarn
People, Place, Travel & Food

Music, Monuments, Culture and Style gives Lucknow its Nawabi Nazakat

The fragrance of kebabs wafts out of the very mention of Lucknow and the cultural bonanza it offers is the stuff dreams are made of. The city is synonymous with...

October 6, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Humor

A Comedy of Errors

Sreelata shares the trials and tribulations of a short vacation at Jaipur. With her husband and a five-year- old, the bus journey between Delhi and Jaipur began. Read the tongue...

June 21, 2016
Sarika Sarkar Das
Food

How Green is my Platter!

Mother’s recipe is the ultimate comfort food. Sarika shares an ethnic Bengali dish, the secret of making Kachu saag – just the way her mother does. It is time consuming...

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