Forgotten Food
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In London, dreams of delicious Kashmiri saag
Memories of the taste of home.
Iqbal Ahmed
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Muneeza Shamsie: In my mother’s Rampur memoir, recollections of grand feasts and delectable desserts
Tales of food and family from a bygone era.
Muneeza Shamsie
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Kakori kababs, pickles and a Lucknow heritage: Recalling a father’s gastronomic adventures
Muneeza Shamsie brings together memories of days spent in pre-Partition India and finding familiar tastes in faraway England
Muneeza Shamsie
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Muneeza Shamsie: My family’s culinary history across India, Pakistan and Britain
The author shares stories of food and flavours that transcend time and borders.
Muneeza Shamsie
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How Urdu domestic manuals in the 1900s taught Indian women to be fair and lovely
Many mythologies around food and skin tone can be found in late colonial-era domestic literature, such as ‘Hifz-i-Sihhat’ and ‘Tabib al-Nisa’.
Mobeen Hussain
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In a pandemic collaboration across oceans, a rekhti performance about Rampur’s food and flavours
A text by 19th-century poet Mir Yar Ali ‘Jan Sahib’ is given new life by historians, archivists and dastangos.
Razak Khan
Video
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Watch: MP policeman turns to religious leader to identify murderer, he claims to know who did it
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Watch: Manipur CM N Biren Singh shows off football skills for Durand Cup inauguration
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‘Smile Please’: Delhi Police warns against traffic violations with a ‘World Photography Day’ post
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Watch: The horrifying moment when a four-storey building collapsed in Mumbai, no casualties reported
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‘When you want to have chapati and biryani’: Video of biryani burrito confuses food lovers
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Each box of halwa sohan in Rampur tells stories of lost food legacies
The halwa sold today is not the halwa of my childhood. It has been revised, adapted, diminished, like so many sweetmeats of times past.
Tarana Husain Khan
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Memories of my father Faiz Ahmed Faiz and our simple dal-chawal meals
Broadcaster Moneeza Hashmi remembers the quiet, unpretentious meals of her childhood.
Moneeza Hashmi
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In Allahabad, a festival celebrates the city’s Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb through food
Over the years, there have been myriad changes in the social life of Allahabad, but its love for food has stayed the same.
Samina Naqvi
The Reel
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Every time Bengal loses a traditional rice variety, it loses a little bit of its culture
Old customs and foods no longer have the same meaning because the rice varieties associated with them are long gone.
Debal Deb
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This book shows there’s more to the cuisine of South Asian Muslims than rich, meaty food
‘Desi Delicacies’ challenges stereotypes and contradicts damaging ideas about the otherness of Muslims.
Claire Chambers
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A festival is reminding people that there’s more to Lucknow’s culinary culture than street food
Home cooks and heirloom recipes make the Sunday lunch at the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival a unique affair.
Noor Khan
The Field
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