Tomorrow marks the beginning (for most Muslims) of the holy month of Ramadan. Considered sacred by Muslims primarily because it is the month in which the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammed, Ramada is also a time of austerity and self-discipline for Muslim people. Fasting from dawn to dusk in Ramadan is […]
I have written in the past of how, in many things, we desis remain unabashedly Anglophilic. Of course, the fascination is mutual, even if it is unequal. From the days of Richard Burton (who introduced straight-laced Victorians to Vatsyayana) and Rudyard Kipling (whose Mowgli and Kim remain the gold standards of impish boyhood) […]
As a committed carnivore and dietary scoff-law, I love my butter chicken, rogan josh and vindaloo. And I love the fact that one can walk into any desi restaurant anywhere in the West and find one’s fix of these fulsome favourites. But it is quite tiresome that this all there seems to be to the […]
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