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Upma is a delicious delicacy originated from south India a long time ago which mainly has salt and Mavu which means flour.

The Song of Urban Forest

When will the birds in the backyard sing again, louder than our morning alarms, the bees do the bumble dance, and the vision of the landscape change with the greens around? We must be willing to give them a chance, not in the hit of a moment, not as a ‘cool’ thing to do but as a necessary step to build a better today and resilient future. Do we have the boldness to leap?

Food Food & Health Health Kitchen & Cuisines

31 May 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

The Paratha Parade

Innovation & creativity shows how anything that can sit in between paratha dough gets rolled out for being cooked.

Food Food & Health Health Kitchen & Cuisines

24 May 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

Makhana Magic

Makhana is good for weight loss and shows magic for heart and kidney health along with ability to manage blood pressure issues too.

Food Food & Health Health Kitchen & Cuisines

17 May 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

The Praiseworthy Pomegranate

The Pomegranate is a praiseworthy, exhilarating and awesome ingredient in various forms from fresh to dried versions as well!

Food & Health Kitchen & Cuisines

10 May 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

The Lovable Lobia

Also known as chawli beans or black-eyed beans, it is one of the commonly available varieties in the family of legumes and pulses. These have come a long way offering their fruitful uses and benefits to us in our diets over the years. Lobia is very popular in our day to day cooking and is prepared in a number of ways – from starters to soups, from dips to salads from stews to curries and from Chaats to kebabs!

Food Food & Health Health Kitchen & Cuisines

3 May 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

FANTABULOUS FRENCH BEANS

French beans are fantabulous and one of the great vegetables at our service all year round having loads of benefits to offer us.

Food Food & Health Kitchen & Cuisines

26 April 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

Let’s Cook Cool This Summer!

Lets cook cool this summer by the kitchen experiences that are lighter and cooler to beat the heat these days besides beating Covid.

Food & Health Kitchen & Cuisines

19 April 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

The Cozy Cauliflower

The cozy cauliflower is one of the most common and popular vegetables known to us for ages now and is part of the staple diet of most of us.

Is COVID Giving Birth to an Inevitable Climate-Crisis?

Imagine a future where the plastic in the ocean will weigh more than the fish in it, approximately 710 million metric tons of plastic dumped in the environment, and plastic eventually entering the human food chain. Unless the handling of COVID-19 induced plastic is not addressed on war-footing, the scenario will just worsen with rapid global warming and a major climate crisis.

Food & Health Kitchen & Cuisines

12 April 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

Brown Rice Relishes

Brown rice relishes as a whole grain that doesn’t cause our blood sugar to spike upon consumption in form of the different dishes.

Food & Health

5 April 2021 Dr. Kaviraj Khialani

Serene Superfoods!

Superfoods are simple to adapt and versatile to react.

Culture Editor's Pick Travel

17 March 2021 Kunal Sharma

A Gem Shines in the Himalayas post-COVID

A gem shines in the Himalayas of post-COVID era. The town of Dharamsala which was on the verge of getting lost seems regaining its charm.

Travel

12 January 2021 Utsarga Mondal

My Experience of Travelling in COVID-19 Special Train

Travelling during the pandemic requires strict compliance of hygiene practices at all times since people around might not follow social distancing. The best way to ensure one’s safety is to abide by the safety guidelines issued by the Government of India.

Culture Editor's Pick Travel

11 November 2020 Nandini Sen

Kashmir’s Gurez Valley: Vistas of a Vanishing World

Hemmed in by the high Himalayas and dappled with wooded villages and meadows, Gurez looks straight out of a picture book of folktales set in the bucolic countryside. Notwithstanding its tranquillity, however, Gurez Valley evokes a disturbing sense of the futility of war in the perceptive visitor owing to the unnatural division of its natural heritage.

Culture

5 November 2020 Mehak Walia

Gender Pronouns: ‘What Do You Like to Be Called?’

The concept of gender pronouns can be very complicated and confusing and understandably so because people refuse to talk about it and discuss it in detail.

Economy Environment

5 November 2020 Devashish Saurav , TheRise.co.in

The Economics of Clean Energy

India should use the opportunities available in clean energy sector to address the issue of unemployment. Owing to the availability of clean energy sources, India can also emerge as an exporter of energy in near future. It will help making India self-sufficient in many senses.

Culture Travel

27 September 2020 M. M. Goel

World Tourism Day 2020: Implications of COVID-19 on Indian Tourism Sector

In view of COVID, the Indian tourism sector needs to redefine, refocus, and change the game plan for going forward.

Culture Environment

25 September 2020 Oishimaya Sen Nag

Save Foresters, Save Forests: The Forgotten Service That Keeps India Alive

Protecting our green cover is one of the basic ways to mitigate the issue of climate change. Thus, forests and foresters need to be the focus of our attention now.

Biological Diversity and Biodiversity Governance

Environment Public Policy Society

22 September 2020 Kunal Sharma

3 Decades of Biodiversity Governance: Convention on Biological Diversity, Biological Diversity Act and ABS

India has been a victim of misappropriation & biopiracy of our genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, many of which have been patented in other countries e.g. Neem and Haldi.

Environment Society

9 September 2020 Soham Chakraborty

The Ignored Disaster of West Bengal – Bhagwangola II

The combined effect of riverbank erosion & flooding takes away lives and destroys properties every year in the villages of Bhagwangola II block in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Yet, the devastation is paid the required attention neither by the media nor the disaster management agencies.

Culture Editor's Pick Entertainment

6 September 2020 Nandini Sen

The Astonishing Relevance of Cinema: Five 20th Century Classics that Need to be Watched

There are certain films whose relevance transcends the boundaries of time and age. By embracing the leitmotifs of human struggle across the ages, such films appear to be true witnesses of the past and foretellers of the future all at once. Here is a list of five cinematic masterpieces that are startlingly relevant as the tumultuous first quarter of the 21st century nears its end.

India's wildlife needs right media attention

Culture Editor's Pick Environment

28 August 2020 Oishimaya Sen Nag

Why India’s Wildlife Needs The Right Kind Of Media Attention?

Media plays a crucial role in influencing public perception of wildlife. In the coming days, media’s role in portraying human-wildlife interactions in India will play a major role in deciding the fate of the country’s wildlife.

Has COVID-19 Taught Us the Humility to Tackle Climate Change?

COVID-19 is a global economic and humanitarian crisis that demonstrates the interconnectedness of humankind. It is also an ecological crisis, that has forcefully brought mother nature back in context.

Culture Editor's Pick Environment

8 August 2020 Kunal Sharma

Time to educate about nature!

Its time to educate about nature. A child trained in a conservation-oriented philosophy will seek to respect nature in the world he will grow up in and take steps to pass on the heritage to his/her forthcoming generations.
The reverence provided to elements of nature has decreased drastically because of the reduction of dependency and a perceived decrease of benefits to us, the humans.

Economy Editor's Pick Environment

18 July 2020 Kunal Sharma

Post-Corona Recovery through Employment Generation in Forestry

Linking employment generation schemes in the corona era to meeting our forestry targets could prove to be a game-changer for the nation’s poor in these trying times as well as provide a lifeline to our beleaguered forests.

Culture Travel

7 June 2020 TheRise.co.in

Cultures of India: State of Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is well known for its ancient culture. Known as the ‘The Land of Dawnlit Mountains’, Arunachal Pradesh finds its mention in prominent scriptures of India, such as the Kalika Purana and Mahabharata.