A large Ladakhi house typically has two kitchens. Yarkhang, the summer kitchen, is a basic functional unit located on a higher floor, while the winter kitchen, chansa, is marked by its lateral sprawl, brass and copper cookware, and a thap (hearth) around which family, guests and visitors gather. It is the fluid potential of the kitchen — transcending its […]
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What does bamboo remind you of? In cities today, its use is mostly restricted to outdoor furniture or for temporary structures like pavilions and gazebos. It is perceived as not as strong and durable as more ‘permanent’ forms of building. But if you’ve been to north-east India, you may encounter bamboo structures that are as […]
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Nicholas Chyrmang (left) with Tim Curtis, Director and UNESCO representative, UNESCO New Delhi regional office. Every tribe and family in India’s Northeast makes food that’s ever so slightly different from each other. So, recipes are not really a tradition here, and every elder in the family can be called a food custodian. But now with […]
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Nayanjyoti Saikia, winner of Masterchef India 7 | Photo Credit: Special arrangement When Masterchef India 7 winner Nayanjyoti Saikia reached his home in Gobindapur village in Tinsukia town (490 kilometres from Guwahati in Upper Assam) on Saturday morning, the 27-year-old mechanical engineer couldn’t believe his eyes; a crowd of over 2000 people were waiting at […]
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According to one of the earliest compilations by Pathsala-based Jayanta Kumar Sarma, Bira is among the most dangerous spirits and is usually controlled by sorcerers. | Photo Credit: Instagram/@thebabayaga07 The spooks of Assam have become spookier with a digital makeover. More than a decade ago, author Pranavjyoti Deka brought out a bilingual thesaurus on all […]
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Assam poet Barshashree Buragohain. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The 17 syllables of a haiku or the 14 lines of a sonnet convinced Barshashree Buragohain long ago that poetry is mathematical. Two months in jail now makes her do the math before giving in to her poetic urge. The police had picked up Ms. Buragohain […]
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File photo of students appearing for the ongoing Assam’s HSLC (Class X) Examination stage a protest in front of the office of the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). Assam police on March 18 arrested a teacher in southern Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly giving answers to his daughter in the sick room of an […]
Continue ReadingVillagers in eastern Assam’s Khumtai cleaning up for a clean constituency contest entailing a first prize of 1 km concrete road. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A race for the top prize, a 1 km concrete road, saw more than two lakh people in an eastern Assam Assembly constituency scrubbing, sweeping, raking, washing and wiping […]
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A Maharashtra legislator’s proposal to send stray dogs to Assam to control their population has irked animal rights activists. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A Maharashtra legislator’s proposal to send stray dogs to Assam to control their population has irked animal rights activists. During a session of the Maharashtra Assembly last week, Prahar Janshakti Party […]
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Fizz and fries: Consumption of fried food and aerated drinks vary across States in India Consumption of fried foods and aerated drinks is relatively higher in Goa, many Northeastern and eastern States as compared to the rest of India, according to data from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS)-5 conducted in 2019-21. According to […]
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