‘Almost human’: life-size replicas of the dead help mend broken hearts in India ⊖
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The silicon figures are a touching version of what the Hindi language calls ‘smaran’, or remembrance
In the north of Kolkata, near Dum Dum Junction, Subimal Das and his staff of 80 work from an old fa…
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Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to bake a birthday cake for Saddam Hussein, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients
There’s a terrific charm and swe…
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Oil is American president’s motivation but his concept of economic success feels as outdated as his music tastes
The word “loot” entered the English language from Hindi in the late 18th century, as th…
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Hardish Virk uses photography, film, music and his family’s memorabilia to tell a wider story of migration and community resilience
As you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition,…
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Which versions of this much-loved and widely adapted rich vegetarian curry will be distilled into the perfect take?
This luxuriantly rich, vegetarian curry – a cousin of butter chicken, which is thoug…
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Maybe there’s room for something gentler: letting children know they don’t need to change any part of themselves to belong
Most mornings in our house feel like a friendly little language carnival spin…
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Basic but beautiful, and very easy, it’s well worth adding this classic Indian vegetable curry to your regular repertoire
Described by chef Vivek Singh as “the most common and basic vegetable curry yo…
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Kumar does his best to inject some humanist gravitas into a film set during the 1965 India-Pakistan war, that is otherwise obsessed with duty and sacrifice
The hope is that the Hindi mainstream is lea…