The place of garlic in India
You can love this strong-smelling bulb and salivate, or you can just find it overpowering. Either way, garlic is at the heart of the culinary conversation in India
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What’s cooking in India?
At a time when a vitriolic political campaign to define what India eats is intensifying, let’s not overlook the wisdom in celebrating India’s diverse food palette.
Kerala CM condemns Centre's move to issue Orange passport for 'labour class'
Joining the bandwagon opposing the Ministry of External Affairs decision to introduce ‘Orange’ passport to migrant workers, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday lashed out at the Centre and said such move will create an embarrassing situation for a vast section of people.
Virulent vegetarianism
Given that a majority of Indians consume meat, why is a democratically elected government trying to dictate what people should eat?
The shadow over Chabahar’s fate
The possibility of Russian support to Chabahar lends a new spin to the contestation brewing between India, China and Pakistan
The partitioning of food
In West Bengal, those who left their homes in Bangladesh still feel a sense of longing for the food they left behind
‘We differ with the US on Jerusalem’
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India - hydropower treaty soon
The Bangladesh Government has said a hydropower agreement with neighbouring countries -- Bhutan and India -- was imminent.
2017 in review: The China contestation
Hardnews looks back at its year-long in depth reporting on China. In April, we looked at the growing tension between between India and China after the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh. We provided a detailed account on the visit, its implications and China’s desperate need to co-opt Tibetan Buddhism. In July and August, in the backdrop of the Doklam stand-off, our reporters travelled to Nepal and Sri Lanka to ascertain the impact of the fallout on the neighbourhood.
China's access to the Indian Ocean
China cannot give up its newly- won access to the Indian Ocean and Myanmar's strategic importance to Beijing cannot, therefore, be overestimated.More than 60 per cent of the world’s oil shipments pass through the Indian Ocean from the Middle East’s oil field to China, Japan and other strong economies in the region, as does 70 per cent of all container traffic to and from the Asian industrial countries