Author: Dinabandhu Nayak
While passing through Cuttack, The Silver City, one thing that would never remain unnoticed is a Dahibara stall. Although the city has a variety of attractions, the craving for the taste of Dahibara Aloodam is often high. Be it the breakfast in the morning or the snacks in the evening, Dahibara Aloodam serves the plates of Cuttackians. Because of it’s authentic taste and texture, it is one of the signature street food from Cuttack. Although Dahibara and Aloodam can be prepared at home, Cuttackians prefer to eat from the street vendors and stalls. The uniqueness of taste is only found…
Do you live to eat? Or you eat to live? Well, the truth is we all love to eat. In short, we have a craving for food. That’s the reason we always search for recipes. Odisha has plenty of authentic recipes to offer. But, Dahi Pakhala (Rice mixed with water and curd) is one of them. It is simple yet delicious and affordable. For Odia people, Dahi Pakhala is an emotion. Due to its authentic taste and easy preparation, it has now got wide acclamation as a food item. Odisha is a state of green rice fields. It is difficult for an Odia to…
The finger licking delicacies of Odisha brings you to the edge of the dining table with ease.never compromise with their food, no matter what happens. Although it is a topic of taste and structure, in terms of health benefits also, dishes from Odisha will never disappoint you. The demand of traditional Odia food items is still high in today’s modern world as well. Out of several cuisines from Odisha, those could serve the plates well,(sweet cake) becomes one of the most authentic and tasteful dishes. A typical north Indian style food item, are mostly prepared at homes. Although both rice…
Let us begin with a disclaimer: this post is not intended to provide Home Remedies any sort of medical advice and we take no responsibility for any harm that may occur while following the instructions given. That said, this post is actually intended to collect the common housewife’s tales about how to take care of minor issues like bruises and cuts or seasonal disorders like the common cold. Now I confess that I do not like allopathic medicine, or more accurately, the misuse of it. Antibiotics are the most overprescribed medicine that I have found commonly sold over the counter.…
India’s independence struggle is filled with many stories from all over the country. Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy We have covered a few of them from Odisha in this blog and plan to write a few more articles. However this post is not about any of them but more of a general thing. The premise is that popular entertainment is not actual history. Movies are made to entertain and most of them only have a cursory link to facts. Such is the case of the Telugu movie released on October 2nd this year: Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy. Starring Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi,…
We have travelled all over India, both for study and work. Building a Stronger Odisha Aggregating our experiences, we have stayed at Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, New Delhi and Kolkata for extensive amount of time exploring opportunities to make money. In the process, we left our state behind. It was a logical decision. There were not many opportunities available for higher learning and work. Other states had better higher learning facilities, better work opportunities, better prospects for economic advancement. Then, one day, we decided to get out of the rat race. We looked back to our origins and realised: there is…
India is a nation of extremes, with the rich on one end and the poor on the other. How To Identify Chit Fund Scams With liberalization the median income of the people has increased significantly, however the income disparity has also increased. This has given rise to many get-rich-quick schemes sprouting out in the market. One of them is the chit fund scheme. However it is very prone to frauds due to poor documentation and lack of information available on them. These investment scams usually prey on the poor and the lower middle class who do not have the necessary…
We had such hopes for this year. That we would go from strength to strength. 2019 in Retrospect That the challenges would be easy. But it was not so. The year from the very beginning to the end was more of a series of highs and lows. Here I look back to the year gone by and try to get a coherent picture of what happened. The recent events are fresh in the mind, the earlier events quite dim. But let us see what we can distill out of whatever happened to us over the year. The beginning was easy…
Winter has been here for a while. There was a cold front blowing through the state for a Why Cant We Defeat The Common Cold? week just some time ago. With it came sniffles, runny noses, sore throats and fever. These are the symptoms of the common cold. It comes like clockwork, every year during the winter season. But why is it that we can’t resist it? Background The common cold is a viral infection. There are no less than 200 different virus strains that can be the cause of the disease. It is actually one of the most infectious…
The world is in the grips of a growing epidemic of respiratory illness. Coronavirus in Odisha COVID-19, as it is now known, is a variant of the common coronavirus, that belongs to the family of pathogens that cause the common cold. This virus gained in prominence at Wuhan City in China, where most of the cases have now been quarantined. However, the incubation time, when a disease carrier showed no symptoms, was large enough that many people had not gotten into quarantine before the disease spread out. Now many people have come home to Odisha over the past month from…