Bengali cuisine is marked by certain typicality…first, there are no set masalas for preparing a particular dish, and second, vegetables have to be cut in
what is a family? What are its foundations? Are families just about what is depicted in ‘saas-bahu’ television series and Bollywood masala movies? Perhaps, it
The Ajanta Caves of Maharashtra are known for their stunning sculpture that date back to the 2nd century BCE.
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Significance is something we tie so much to/But from up here/All I see are flickering lights/And ants crawling by
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On 16 August 2012, 34 miners of the Marikana platinum mines in South Africa were shot dead by the police. A decade later, the legacy
