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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicSouth Indian food

Topic: South Indian food

South Indian chefs are finally taking over US fine dining. Going beyond naan and dal

From New York’s Michelin-starred Semma to Thattu in Chicago, high-end restaurants in the US are now celebrating South Indian cuisine and not just giving it a passing nod.

Sambar did not originate in South India. It was first cooked in a royal Maratha kitchen

IIC’s quarterly issue ‘Food Cultures of India’ led to discussions on the transformative force of food—its evolution with migration, the biases and prejudices, and food policies.

Dhirubhai to Anant Ambani—Matunga’s Cafe Mysore has been serving South Indian food since 1936

The newly married Ambani couple touched Shanteri’s feet, while Radhika Merchant said, 'Every Sunday, we eat your food in our house.' Suddenly, everyone wants to know about Cafe Mysore.

We are mad about Weingarten’s Indian food comment. But who decides what’s ‘Indian’?

From Padma Lakshmi to Salman Rushdie, many were outraged by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's jab at Indian food. But are we not also guilty?

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.