What's in your Honey?
Ayurveda prescribes it for a range of ailments. People eat it for rejuvenation and boosting immunity. An Indian homemaker’s kitchen shelf is incomplete without a jar of this amber liquid.
India gets ready for banana war
By: Anirudh Nair A fungus that threatens popular Cavendish bananas traced in the country
A fish moves west
By: Kaushik Das Gupta Ten years ago Bangladesh’s rivers were deeper and hilsa plentiful. But silting, dams and pollution pushed the fisher into deep ocean and resulted in shifting of their homebase. The Bangladesh fish wholesaler’s loss became Gujarat’s gain as increasingly hilsa from the Tapti and the Narmada feed the Kolkata market.
The battle for control of our bodies
They say you are what you eat. But do we know what we are eating? Do we know who is cooking and serving us the food we take to our kitchens and then into our bodies?
A climate change for the artisan
Will demand for eco-friendly foods means a decline in artisnal skills? by Sudhansu Das, journalist and writer, Pune