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Watch | Did you know Chennai’s Vyasarpadi serves Burmese breakfast?

Watch | Did you know Chennai’s Vyasarpadi serves Burmese breakfast?

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Watch | This Chennai suburb serves traditional Burmese breakfast You can now get a traditional Burmese breakfast at the narrow bylanes of Sastri Nagar in Vyasarpadi, a Chennai suburb. A community of Burmese repatriates in Vyasarpadi uphold their tradition by cooking and selling a breakfast of Kavuni or black rice porridge, mopeto, and babio. Since […]

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The Nagarathar Way: Portrait of a community

The Nagarathar Way: Portrait of a community

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The diary is dog-eared and gravy-stained, fraying at the edges, its pages sepia. The old grandfather clock in the foyer stands sentinel over the Burma teak staircase that creaks with the weight of history.  A page from Umayal Palaniappan’s diary | Photo Credit: R RAVINDRAN Umayal Palaniappan leafs through the diary, strangely yearless, drawing attention […]

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