0355 IST, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 
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Learning world cuisines through culinary clubsBy Shilpa Raina
As the fragrance of masala-fried prawns wafts through the room, a discerning audience diligently takes quick notes of the instructions given by the chef to ensure the coating is crisp and not burnt. What would probably be mistaken as a cooking class in session is in reality a clique of foodies at a culinary club learning directly from experts. |
In war-torn Somalia, a fragile corner of peaceBy Aman Sethi / The Hindu
Down the street the porter walked, wheelbarrow piled high with thick wads of Somaliland shillings held together with elastic bands. Along the pavements, tea-sipping money traders sat behind similar stacks of wealth, trading shillings for dollars, pounds, euros and even slivers of gold. |
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Spectrum, currency help a Somali state thriveBy Aman Sethi / The Hindu
Across town from Hargeisa’s money exchange market is a large green building that looks and acts very much like a bank, but isn’t one. Dahabshiil is Africa’s largest money transfer company and has 24,000 agents in 144 countries; its operational headquarters are in Hargeisa, and the company is one of the cabal of businesses keeping Somaliland together. |
He opened up president's palace to the peopleBy Ranjana Narayan
His Facebook page has over 35,000 likes, he is on YouTube, he has done away with excessive security to mingle with the crowd, stuffy honorifics have been replaced and the palatial Rashtrapati Bhavan has been thrown open to visits by the public - just some of the things that President Pranab Mukherjee has done in his first year in office to live up to being a 'peoples president'. |
Indian rescued Hemingway after Africa plane crash?By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Bullied by a herd of wild elephants and down to their last rations, Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, his wife and a pilot were rescued by an Indian expat after their plane crashed in east central Africa in the 1950s, the savior's son has said. |
It's time for mango maniaBy Monish Gujral
Come summer and I become a mango maniac. The musky mango aroma always reminds me of my younger days in our old Delhi house in Civil Lines, where we would climb the mango trees in our front lawn. There was always a tough fight between us siblings for the larger loot. |
160 year-old telegraph service passing into historyBy Aparajita Gupta
No longer will people be able to romance through telegrams just as Raj Kapoor wooed Vyjanthimala in the sixties' hit movie "Sangam".
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Film on solar grandmas wins best documentary at Zanzibar fest
"No Problem! Six Months with the Barefoot Grandmamas", a documentary that traces the lives of rural African women studying in Rajasthan to be solar engineers, won the best documentary film award at the Zanzibar International Film Festival, considered to be the biggest film festival in East Africa. |
Peripheral shift in literature sprinkling regional flavoursBy Shilpa Raina
Regional literature in India has always mirrored social changes, conflicts and cultural shifts of society while Indian writings in English have traced the history and cultural aspects of the metros. These streams are slowly being bridged by a new breed of writers who are venturing beyond the metros and adding piquant flavours to their works. |
Magical romance of mangoes and the koel songBy Saeed Naqvi
Around this season every year, friends and relatives, turn up at our house in South Delhi with mangoes wrapped in newspapers, gunny bags, even discarded bed sheets. |
