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A meet-up of food-cousins, twins, triplets and more-4
When Hodge Podge talked of taking his cousins with him back to Canada, there were squeals of delight from his cousins.

How did Deepavali/Diwali become so ‘secularized’?
The efforts to secularize a culturally rich religious festival like Deepavali have taken away much of its civilizational value.

Eat your way into the record books!
But at what cost? The obscene quantities of food being demolished can feed hundreds of hungry people, besides playing havoc with the competitor’s health.

Idli-dosas and Me!
The humble idli has gone places and is even celebrating a World Idli Day! #WorldIdliDay

BRANDS THAT USHERED IN A LIFESTYLE REVOLUTION
Born into a world where these products and more were already part of everyday life, it would be difficult for the younger generations to comprehend the momentous changes that these brands had brought into our lives.

Do you recall the brands from your childhood? – I
Remember some of the brands of the mid 20th century? Come, walk back in time with me…

It’s fun being a ‘har-topic-wali’ blogger!
Come February, Cybernag would complete nine years, one shy of a decade. And just like that, I began thinking of the beginning…. I had started blogging at a time when blogging was still ‘web logging’ in practice, though the terms ‘blogging’ and ‘blogger’ had already been coined and in use. We bloggers were full of […]

Whatever happened to the plastic ban?
While it is a known fact that recycling doesn’t reduce plastic waste, just delays its trash value, reducing and reusing are certainly are lasting solutions.

To Sir, with Love, 50 years on!
He laid the foundation for my craft and so lives on, in every sentence I write.

Are Indians the most colour-discriminating?
If you were to go by the Google search results, it would certainly appear so. But is it the true picture?

Where Are The Fun Games We Played?
If one were to go to any upmarket locality in a metro with its high-rises, one can’t hear the full-throated cries and laughter of children as they played random games. It makes me wonder, what has happened to all the games that children played with gay abandon and loads of fun – as recently as […]

Traditional stoves – sigri, kumutti and more….
The three-stone-wood-stove goes as far back in time as the discovery of fire and astonishingly still being used, much like the other invention – the wheel.
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