Chinmay Damle
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Taste of Life: ‘Milk problem’ in colonial India (opens the original)
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Milk has long been central to the Indian diet. Across all social classes, fresh milk and its derivatives like curd, buttermilk, ghee, and khoa form an essential part of everyday meals. However, during the 19th and 20th centuries, this basic staple was not available to all, and what reached the market was largely unfit for safe consumption. As towns expanded and milk became increasingly commercialised, scarcity, adulteration, and contamination turned the daily supply into what colonial health off
How fasting became a weapon of India’s freedom struggle (opens the original)
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Humanity has forever turned to fasting to connect with the divine, clear the mind, or heal the body. In modern Indian history, however, it evolved into a powerful instrument of political resistance. The news that Babu Harendranath Munshi had died on hunger strike inside Dhaka Jail sparked widespread public grief and political indignation in India. To honour his memory, public memorial meetings were convened in Pune on February 1, 1938 and under the chairmanship of Popatlal Shah, the City Congres
Taste of Life: When service is the highest form of devotion (opens the original)
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Every year, in the weeks before Ashadhi Ekadashi, Pune welcomes the palkhis of Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj from Alandi and Sant Tukaram Maharaj from Dehu as they make their way to Pandharpur. The annual pilgrimage, known as the “waari”, draws hundreds of thousands of devotees, known as warkaris, from across Maharashtra. The word warkari means one who undertakes a regular pilgrimage to the shrine of a chosen deity. In Maharashtra, however, it has come to refer specifically to devotees who make the p
When The Odyssey team Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon and Tom Holland sipped chai at this iconic Bombay Irani café (opens the original)
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When Olympia Coffee House and Stores opened at Colaba, a stone’s throw from the Taj Mahal Hotel built in 1903, Bombay was already a cosmopolitan port city bustling with Arabs, Portuguese, the English and the Chinese tradesmen. Olympia, founded by Iranian entrepreneur Syed Mohammed Merab, became part of a wave of Irani cafés that shaped Bombay’s social and culinary culture for the next century. ALSO READ | Tom Holland blown away by Indian fans at The Odyssey India premiere: ‘No one brings energy
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