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The biryani is Indias most beloved dishone that has spread to all the four cornersof the country and assumed many forms.It originated in the Mughal courts, flowering in the jagirs of Awadh, and it is in Lucknow, Delhi andthe small Muslim principalities of north India that one finds the classic versions, subtle, refined, anddelicately flavoured. Pratibha Karan gives us not just the definitive recipes from these regions butunearths rare and old dishes such as a ...
Hyderabad is an epitome of India's composite heritage. It is a confluence of several cultures and identities, Indian and foreign, but with a compelling identity all its own, so wondrously conceptualized 400 years ago by its founder, Sultan Mohammed Quli. His invocation for the city was that millions of men and women of all castes, creeds and religions (should) make it their abode, like fishes in the ocean. In the same sprit, he first named the city Bhagnagar, ...