Hindu Mathematics – How Original Was It?

Plofker’s book (Mathematics in India) fulfils an important need in a world where mathematical historiography has been largely shaped by the dominance of the Greco-Christian world view and the Enlightenment period.

Industrial Food

Industrial Food is not just about food production, but also about globalization. Multinational corporations affect food production all over the world. Food has been contaminated all over the world with synthetic chemicals

The Art of Eating Gulab Jamun

One evening I suddenly feel an urge, a craving, a desperate sort of yearning, for my favourite sweet – The Gulab Jamun.

Message on your Plate

To ensure a certain degree of cohesiveness, of togetherness, to ensure our survival as psychologically healthy human beings the world needs to turn into one big foodie zone.

Regal Chowk ‘Dhai Bhale’ in Abu Dhabi

Yes indeed, it is true, we were eating fresh ‘Dhai Bhale’ from the famous Lahore Regal Chowk sitting in our living room in our house in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Gimme Eat??

Sometimes I think its just me over-reacting. Maybe I am taking on these things more seriously than they ought to be taken. But I cannot stop myself from thinking that even after thousands of years of eating, we are still damn hungry!

UNhappy times?

“We are outgunned. We are outmanned. We need help from outside groups. We need to be able to organize outsiders to work with us to write to papers, to appear on television.”

A Taste of Lahore

Since lunch in Delhi was a big affair, the officially forced frugality at weddings in Pakistan was quite welcome, as bowls of chicken corn soup was all that was served. Good soup though!

Deliciously Delhi

Food and history are something that both Delhi and Lahore have in common.

Aloo Gobi for the Choosy

After years of nagging and ominous reminders that if I didn’t learn how to cook I would be considered an uncultured specimen of the female desi specimens

The Palate’s Passionplay

A low moan is the sound of satiation, after breaking bread as well as in bed. Both food and sex make full use of our senses

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