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India's cultural heritage now available in Braille

The works of Jawaharlal Nehru and Rabindranath Tagore will soon be accessible for the visually challenged too.

A village that boasts of being crime-free
Asit Srivastava

No murders or kidnappings, not even petty crimes like chain snatchings and thefts in the past 15 years! This is the proud record of a small village in Uttar Pradesh, India's eastern state whose population exceeds that of Britain and France combined.

Planting trees to celebrate girls, a village keeps count
By Imran Khan

A village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar is greener than many others. For, it celebrates the birth of girl children by planting saplings. And now Dharhara is counting the number of girls born and the trees planted in the last 100 years -- in a symbolic move against female foeticide.

Eat, gamble, enjoy - this town is happily cut off!
Vishal Gulati

What would you do if you were stuck in a snow- covered place and cut off from the rest of the world for five months? Lament? But this landlocked town of Keylong in northern India makes the most of it by holding celebrations, gambling, knitting, drinking and making merry!

'I write for Indian readers'
By Madhusree Chatterjee

Novelist Ashwin Sanghi, winner of the Vodafone Crossword Award in the popular fiction category for "Chanakya's Chant", has given commercial thrillers a 'desi' edge.

 

 

Contemporising Indian cuisines

King prawns with saffron almond sauce; clove-smoked roast rump of lamb with corn, asparagus, curried avocado and beetroot salad, or a Roganjosh pie? It is never an easy choice at the Cinnamon Club in Westminster, London. The decade-old restaurant started by British-Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Wahhab is one of London’s top “curry houses”, with a clientele that includes Britain’s top politicians and lobbyists, and is known for serving Indian food with a twist. So it is not surprising that a book by its executive chef Vivek Singh and head chefs Abdul Yaseen and Hari Nagaraj, Cinnamon Club: Indian Cuisine Reinvented (Random House India, Rs 899), includes recipes of sandalwood-infused tandoori chicken breast, and steamed mango idlis with wild berry sorbet. In an interview with sharon fernandes, Singh talks of the global appeal of Indian food, and the changes it needs to incorporate. Excerpts:

At 12, he is newspaper editor, reporter and publisher
Asit Srivastava

He is all of 12 years but Utkarsh Tripathi painstakingly brings out a handwritten newspaper every week to spread awareness among his peers on issues like the environment and female foeticide. And all this to satisfy his urge to "serve the country".

Humayun's Tomb gets 16th century makeover
By Madhusree Chatterjee

Early in the morning, a posse of nearly 100 masons troop in with their chisels to recast the weathered stones and crumbling lime facades of the 16th century mausoleum of Mughal emperor Humayun, a family tomb, which is home to 160 graves.

Dance fever catches on among Indians, thanks to TV
By Priyanka Sharma

Salsa, tango, B-Boying and hip-hop -- international dance forms have become household names and more people want to learn them thanks to a flood of dance reality shows on TV. What's more, these shows also provide a springboard to the glamorous world of showbiz for budding dancers.

5 PIO varsities coming up for Indian diaspora

The Government of India proposes to set up five PIO (person of Indian origin) universities in different cities in the country to “deepen its connectivity with the diaspora.”

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