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The Chennai master chef who enters locals’ homes to learn curries flavours

Sydney, Oct 10 (ANI): Chennai’s popular Dakshin restaurant is known for its sumptuous South Indian dishes including the chicken curry.

Now, chef Praveen Anand has revealed that he mastered new flavours by learning recipes from locals of South India.

Studying different styles of cooking from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, Anand has created his [...]

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Rahul blames media for Dalit ‘frame’ on village visits

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7 (IANS) The media had thrust a Dalit ‘frame’ on his visits to poor districts of the country, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Wednesday while stressing that he did not believe in the caste system and only saw people as human beings.

‘I see myself going to a human being’s house. I [...]

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Media has thrust Dalit ‘frame’ on my village visits: Rahul

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7 (IANS) The media had thrust a Dalit ‘frame’ on his visits to poor areas of the country, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Wednesday while stressing that he did not believe in the caste system and only saw people as human beings.

‘I see myself going to a human being’s house. I [...]

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Rahul blames media for Dalit tag to his village visits

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 7 (IANS) The media had thrust a Dalit ‘frame’ on his visits to poor districts of the country, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here Wednesday while stressing that he did not believe in the caste system and only saw people as human beings.

‘I see myself going to a human being’s house. I [...]

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‘No UN resolution on caste in India’

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) There has been no resolution in the UN Human Rights Council or any organisation associated with it to equate the caste system with racial discrimination, official sources said here while opposing any attempt to internationalise the issue.

There have been no resolutions in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) or its [...]

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UN says India’s caste system is a human rights abuse

Geneva, Sep.29 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, is expected to ratify draft principles which will recognize India’s caste system as a human rights abuse.

The UN will condemn the persecution suffered by 65 million ‘untouchables’ or ‘Dalits’ who carry out the most menial and degrading work

The UN draft, which has been [...]

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Village council heads meet to register support for honour killing

Lucknow, Sep. 14 (ANI): Representatives of various village councils from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi met to express their support for the traditional honour killing of couples who marry in the same gotra (clan).

These councils known as ‘Khap councils’ are notorious for [...]

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