Video: The tumbler used to drink coffee in South India contains a clue to its problematic history
The coffee houses in Madras province in the 1920s practised segregation by having separate sections for Brahmins and other castes.
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3Kele ki machchli, moong dal ke shami kebab, atte ka keema: The faux ‘meat’ dishes of Kayasth cuisine
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4United States imposes 26% reciprocal tariffs on India
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5How Indian artists transformed Western ‘Cubism’
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6From the memoir: A longtime Indian Railways employee remembers her first posting at a remote station
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7A walk down the memory lane of my cinema-obsessed youth
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8With the Waqf Bill, the state brings a legal bulldozer to minority rights
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9How the attacks on Kunal Kamra undermine the freedoms of all Indians
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10A woman’s place is in the kitchen – except if she’s a chef in the male-dominated culinary world
