Category: Articles
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POTATOES WITH BLACK PEPPER: काली मिर्च संग आलु
COOKING TIME: 15 minutes 6 medium potatoes 1/4 teaspoon crushed chilies 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup of water 2 – 3 tablespoons of lemon juice Baghaar (बघार: the method of tempering whole spices in hot fat, like olive oil or ghee allowing them to bloom, infusing their flavors into the fat…
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THE COST OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT: Filipe Valente Rocha
Nearly 50 years ago I drove through France where I experienced idyllic rustic evenings and a blue sky above the horizon. The agronomic engineer driving me looked with concern at the size and strength of the stems of wheat: “Look! By this time the wheat should be bigger and, above all, stronger. We will…
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Cauliflower Leaves with Potatoes
Cooking time:: 15 – 20 minutes leaves of 1 cauliflower ( chopped fine) 1 medium potato (peeled and chopped into 8 pieces) 1 teaspoonful of coriander powder 1/4 teaspoonful of chopped chillies 1/4 teaspoonful of turmeric 1 teaspoon of amchoor 1/2 teaspoon of salt Bahhgaar (Whole spices are browned in hot oil or ghee before…
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Sir Nicholas Winton
What seemed so poignant to me about the film Schindler’s List was the cool, unabbreviated examination of man’s inhumanity to man in the context of the holocaust. The story concerns the relocation of the Polish Jews from Krakow in late 1939, shortly after the beginning of the second world war. (Such a momentous faux pas…
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Anne Katrin Voss: Interview
Michele Can you tell us about yourself and briefly about your background in education? Anne Katrin Well, a lot of people ask me why I usually wear orange or purple clothes and a lot of people ask me whether I had been an Osho follower: I never was actually. As you can see behind…
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A Sea Change
Fife Shipyard used to be one of the greatest boatbuilders in the world. I believe it’s still there at Fairlie – just a way south of Greenock on Scotland’s west coast. In 1929 they built their most successful racing yacht, a classic metre-class boat, Caryl, the only British metre-class yacht to race against the Yanks…
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Edinburgh Festival 2023
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Falafel
INGREDIENTS 650g canned chickpeas, drained 1 red onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, crushed 100g wholemeal bread 2 small red chillies 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tbsp chopped coriander, plus extra to garnish 1/4 cup of yoghurt 100g fresh wholemeal breadcrumbs vegetable oil for deep frying salt and pepper to taste TO SERVE tomato and cucumber…
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Free School Opens in Delhi: Good News Network
A Dehli police officer who managed to crawl his way out of the city slums as a child is now giving back to poor children who live the lifestyle of skipping school and working odd jobs. With his free school, when class is in session in the parking lot of the famous Red Fort, Than…
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WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER
A Buddhist Peacemaker Born in Vietnam in 1926, Thich Nhat Hanh has been a peacemaker since his ordination as a Buddhist monk at the age of 16. During the Vietnam War, he helped villagers who were suffering as a result of bombing. He opposed his government’s policies and as a consequence was exiled from his…
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NEURODIVERSITY AND CREATIVITY
Dr Kai Syng Tan is an artist, curator, researcher, and consultant who lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is known for her interdisciplinary/intercultural approach to making interventions in the world around her. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2015 and since then has become an advocate for the notion of neurodiversity. She initiated a major…
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LIVING AND DYING IN PEACE
Dealing with life, death and beyond
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FOX DIARY
Dusk, a tub full of freshly picked Autumn raspberries, a warm moody sky, and you appear out of nowhere!
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NEW LIFE THAILAND
AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIEN GRYPE We’re sitting in a little room at the end of a row of units used as accommodation for the volunteers and residents of New Life Thailand. This room is commonly used for counselling, life-coaching and therapy. Julien sits across the table looking calm despite his busy schedule as a meditation teacher…
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Bodhicharya Caribbean
Rinchen came to the Caribbean from England when he was 22 and lived in the Leewards during the ’70s and ’80s working in the islands – and living the life of a lay Buddhist.