Searched for
BENGAL FAMINE 1943
Can you make tasty foods from peels, roots, stems and leaves? The Bengali connection behind zero-waste cooking trendBengalis have long practiced zero-waste cooking. Food scraps are transformed into flavorful dishes. This tradition stems from historical fa...- Controversial quote by Winston Churchill: ‘I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion’Winston Churchill, celebrated for his World War II leadership, also held deeply critical views of India and its people. His legacy is conte...
- Elon Musk likes weird post saying Britishers never ruled India, gets an earful from IndiansElon Musk ignited controversy by endorsing a viral tweet that absurdly claimed India was never ruled by the British, using flawed logic abo...
- One pound a year for 200 years: Britain's moral debt to IndiaIndependence Day 2025: Shashi Tharoor spoke at Oxford Union in 2015. He argued Britain owes India reparations for colonial exploitation. Th...
- LS Speaker, Union Ministers and MPs pay floral tributes to Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee on his birth anniversaryLok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, along with Union Ministers JP Nadda and Ashwini Vaishnaw, led dignitaries in paying floral tributes to Dr. Syam...
- Unlocking Winston Churchill's menu: A new restaurant reveals his culinary secretsThe Guardian reported that Aldwark Manor in Yorkshire launched a Churchill-themed restaurant called Chartwell, named after his house. The r...
- "Will always cherish conversations with him": PM Modi condoles death of MS SwaminathanHis groundbreaking work paved the way for what would become the "Green Revolution" in India-an agricultural transformation that significant...
- With chicken short, Singapore cries fowl!Much of a nation's favourite food has been a product not just of habit but also of cultural pride. While chicken is, of course, consumed in...
- Kangana Ranaut trains guns at comedian Vir Das, calls his 'Two Indias' monologue an act of 'soft terrorism'In the six-minute video, Das talks about the duality of India.
- View: Why India is facing a shortage of oxygen of truth-tellingPandemics are not as easily preventable. But last year's infodemic - the glut of advice on kadha, gau mootra, giloy, steam inhalation and v...
- How did we do in these seven decades of Independence? Actually better than expectedIn 1947, agriculture accounted for 54% of India’s GDP. In 2019, it is at about 13%. But at the time of Independence, 60% of India depended ...
- View: Lockdown and covid woes, then add cyclonic destructionAt some point the questions give way to explanations that involve the gods, or fate, or happenstance, or coincidence, or chaos. Answers bec...
- Recollecting India's frantic efforts to end starvation after independenceThe nature of hunger has changed, but at a basic level, India still struggles to feed its people adequately.
- ET View: It’s not so much Peter Handke, but the Nobel Prize that should be judged by its choiceWhat has troubled some critics is that he is a public sympathiser of Yugoslavian and Serbian war criminal Slobodan Miloševic.
- How India's water ends up everywhere but IndiaPutting so much water into rice grains and swelling cotton bolls seems a criminal waste of a precious resource.
- Bengal famine of 1943 caused by British policy failure, not drought: StudyNow, for the first time, researchers have analysed soil moisture database from 1870 to 2016 to reconstruct agricultural droughts.
- View: Winston Churchill a bigot, but don’t blame him for 3 million deathsHistorically, no ruler anywhere diverted food from armies fighting life-or-death battles to starving peasants. Quite the contrary.
- Bengal's starving tea workers need Mamata Banerjee's 'mamata'In his classic 1977 book, economic historian Amalendu Guha reckoned around 80% of these workers died on slave boats en route to tea estates.
- Experience the complete package of shopping, food and artDon’t miss a rare retrospective on the life and work of Chittaprosad, one of India’s most important artists.
- India needs second 'green revolution': Top farm scientistIndia needs to produce a second "Green Revolution" to boost food supplies or the nation's 1.1 billion people will face huge social turmoil.
Load More
