Yayavr, an experience based gastro-travel service helps curious, novice explorers navigate South India. We hand pick and tailor make...

Thinker and cultural activist Dr. Ganesh N. Devy (b. 1950) ( https://gndevy.in ) , is the force behind the People’s Linguistic Survey of...

From January to May of this year (2024), I taught an undergraduate course titled “Learning to Learn” to 110 students. I struggled at...

Yesterday, I hosted the third edition of the Yayavr Book Club. The community has swelled with participants who are observant, curious,...

How did a marketing campaign by the Indian Tea Association change the way an entire subcontinent drank and socialised? Last year, I was...

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, I was delighted to host the second edition of the Yayavr Book Discussion Club. We read the chapter titled...

When I studied history in school, I used to hate blindly memorising world events. At that age, I did not grasp how military policy and...

Have you ever tried a recipe for a dish that you had never tasted before? A dish that you had no personal experience with? How would you...

On June 14, 2022, I was delighted to be a part of an intimate, informative and engaging book discussion on the chapter titled “Madras...

What kind of food do we consume when we are on the move? Think of the “dhabhas” in the north or “dabhas” in the south where you are...

Lizzie Collingham notes that the “idea of a curry is, in fact, a concept that the Europeans imposed on India’s food culture” (p. 115) in...

In the chapter titled “Madras Curry: the British invention of curry”, historian Collingham demonstrates how the dinner table in the...