New Arrivals May 2008
Political Theologies — Public Religions in a Post-secular World: Hend de Vries, Lawrence E Sullivan — Editor; Social Science Press, 69 Jor Bagh, New Delhi and Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd., 1/24 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110002. Rs. 795. Globalization and the Millennium Development Goals — Negotiating the Challenge: Manmohan Agarwal, Amit Shovon Roy; Social Science Press, 69 Jor Bagh, New Delhi-110003. Rs. 675. India’s New Capitalists — Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation: Harish Damodaran; Permanent Black, Himalayana, Mall Road, Ranikhet Cantt, Ranikhet-263645.
Magical Stories, The Hindu, 22 April 2008
PAROMITA PAIN
Eight tales – some old, some new-but all fascinating.
Do you remember the story of the elves and the shoemaker? Haven’t you often wished some genie would spring up and do your homework and all you had to do was to set your books out neatly? Wishful thinking aside it is stories like these that make childhood magical. If you want your younger siblings to enjoy them and make the session a time where they can learn to read for themselves too then ask for the Storytellers set of books. The package has four books, each one a different story, retold by BookBox, with clever pictures and a VCD. The VCD has animations with subtitles that get highlighted with the words spoken on screen to help learn words faster.
And not just old fairy tales. Newer stories like “Tucket the Bucket” are welcome additions. Written by Kuzhali Manickavel, “Tucket the Bucket” is a delightful story of the saddest bucket in the world. Once a garden favourite a hole saw him lose his place of favour. Now how would you feel if you went from being the teacher’s pet to the class dunce? Well Tucket felt a bit like that and worse perhaps. Is Tucket doomed to rust in sorrow? Read on or listen to find out!
Have you ever said boo to a ghost before? Now you never will for after reading Manikavels “The Boo in the shoe” Puzzle the purple Boo and you will soon be friends.
Available in two sets with each one containing a set of five books and a VCD each, these are exciting books to add to your collection.
STORYTELLERS 1 AND 2, Orient Longman Publications, Rs 295
Eight tales – some old, some new-but all fascinating.
Do you remember the story of the elves and the shoemaker? Haven’t you often wished some genie would spring up and do your homework and all you had to do was to set your books out neatly? Wishful thinking aside it is stories like these that make childhood magical. If you want your younger siblings to enjoy them and make the session a time where they can learn to read for themselves too then ask for the Storytellers set of books. The package has four books, each one a different story, retold by BookBox, with clever pictures and a VCD. The VCD has animations with subtitles that get highlighted with the words spoken on screen to help learn words faster.
And not just old fairy tales. Newer stories like “Tucket the Bucket” are welcome additions. Written by Kuzhali Manickavel, “Tucket the Bucket” is a delightful story of the saddest bucket in the world. Once a garden favourite a hole saw him lose his place of favour. Now how would you feel if you went from being the teacher’s pet to the class dunce? Well Tucket felt a bit like that and worse perhaps. Is Tucket doomed to rust in sorrow? Read on or listen to find out!
Have you ever said boo to a ghost before? Now you never will for after reading Manikavels “The Boo in the shoe” Puzzle the purple Boo and you will soon be friends.
Available in two sets with each one containing a set of five books and a VCD each, these are exciting books to add to your collection.
STORYTELLERS 1 AND 2, Orient Longman Publications, Rs 295
The Epicure Cookbook
“At a Moplah Food Festival in Bangalore recently, a regular user of my cookbook rang up the organisers on hearing that I was in town. She had bought my book Malabar Muslim Cookery a decade back and wanted it autographed. This is only an instance of the appreciation I have received to my recipe books that include The Epicure Cookbook.”
Storytellers: Six-pack wonder
Storytellers is the closest kids can get to a six pack. Each volume, in a colourful cardboard box, comes with five storybooks and a VCD.
Storytellers is a product of an association between local publishers Orient Longman and Bookbox, an American company which has sourced stories from around the world. This means the stories are not the hackneyed ones served out to children over the generations.
The read-along method helps a child relate phonetic sounds with visual subtitles, thereby accelerating the development of his reading skills.
The CD has other interactive parts, too – puzzles like Join The Dots and Sort The Jumbled Pieces, for instance. One can also take the printouts of outlined pictures for colouring.
Sudeshna Banerjee
The Telegraph, Kolkatta, 9 April 2008
Storytellers is a product of an association between local publishers Orient Longman and Bookbox, an American company which has sourced stories from around the world. This means the stories are not the hackneyed ones served out to children over the generations.
The read-along method helps a child relate phonetic sounds with visual subtitles, thereby accelerating the development of his reading skills.
The CD has other interactive parts, too – puzzles like Join The Dots and Sort The Jumbled Pieces, for instance. One can also take the printouts of outlined pictures for colouring.
Sudeshna Banerjee
The Telegraph, Kolkatta, 9 April 2008
The Malabar Muslim Cookery
Seventy-year-old Ummi Abdullah grew up in a large Moplah family where there was plenty of help to do the cooking. But Ummi had to learn the tricks of the trade when she married V. Abdulla.
The Malabar Muslim cookery expert from Calicut is here at the Moplah cuisine festival on till March 30 at Karavalli at the Taj Gateway, as part of an attempt to bring in renowned people from different coastal regions for its 15th year celebrations.
The Malabar Muslim cookery expert from Calicut is here at the Moplah cuisine festival on till March 30 at Karavalli at the Taj Gateway, as part of an attempt to bring in renowned people from different coastal regions for its 15th year celebrations.
The Malabar Muslim Cookery
The New Indian Express Group
newindpress.com
Friday March 28 2008 12:55 IST
Fit for an epicure
Malavika
UMMI Abdullah, along with Taj Executive Chef Naren Thimmaiah, has brought a whole lot of Maplah delicacies to the city. Maplah is the Malayam speaking Muslim community of North Kerala.
Ummi has surely come a long way. From a young girl who left a pappad on hot coal to see it burn to cinders, to a grandmother with a few cookery books to her credit.
Her love for culinary is such that she was chanting recipes, while on partial sedation for a bone grafting surgery, to bear the excruciating pain!
Mouth-watering would be an understatement to sum up Ummi’s Maplah platter. And in the same breath, one has to admit that it would make the nose water too, as the food is as hot and spicy as it can get.
From the chena(yam) cutlet to the prawn biriyani, Ummi makes it a culinary journey worth every penny.
Ari Kadukka (snack made of rice flour and mussels), Kozhi ada (fried malabari dumplings with minced chicken), chemeen varattiyathu (prawn fry) and podi pathiri (rice pancakes) are the chef’s favourite from the special Maplah menu.
Except for those with a delicate stomach, Ummi’s pickles - fish, prawns, chillies, onions, dates, lemon and salted mangoes — prepared at her residence in Kozhikode, Kerala, are a musthave. Remember to keep a jug of water and a couple tissues by your side.
Though Thenga chammandi (dry coconut chutney) cannot be tagged as Maplah, it is delicious. Same goes with a couple of other dishes like the meen varutharacha curry (fish curry).
Ummi’s desserts are definite Maplah delights. Mutta mala(sweet made of egg yolk), Chatti pathiri (layers of flour stuffed with sugar, nuts and grated cocunut) and kaya nerachiyatu (stuffed banana) can be a meal by itself if you look at the calorie count.
Weight-watchers, do not try them. But for those with a sweet tooth, you must not miss the chance.
The Maplah Festival is on at Karavalli restaurant at Taj Gateway till March 30. A meal for two will cost around Rs 2,000.
newindpress.com
Friday March 28 2008 12:55 IST
Fit for an epicure
Malavika
UMMI Abdullah, along with Taj Executive Chef Naren Thimmaiah, has brought a whole lot of Maplah delicacies to the city. Maplah is the Malayam speaking Muslim community of North Kerala.
Ummi has surely come a long way. From a young girl who left a pappad on hot coal to see it burn to cinders, to a grandmother with a few cookery books to her credit.
Her love for culinary is such that she was chanting recipes, while on partial sedation for a bone grafting surgery, to bear the excruciating pain!
Mouth-watering would be an understatement to sum up Ummi’s Maplah platter. And in the same breath, one has to admit that it would make the nose water too, as the food is as hot and spicy as it can get.
From the chena(yam) cutlet to the prawn biriyani, Ummi makes it a culinary journey worth every penny.
Ari Kadukka (snack made of rice flour and mussels), Kozhi ada (fried malabari dumplings with minced chicken), chemeen varattiyathu (prawn fry) and podi pathiri (rice pancakes) are the chef’s favourite from the special Maplah menu.
Except for those with a delicate stomach, Ummi’s pickles - fish, prawns, chillies, onions, dates, lemon and salted mangoes — prepared at her residence in Kozhikode, Kerala, are a musthave. Remember to keep a jug of water and a couple tissues by your side.
Though Thenga chammandi (dry coconut chutney) cannot be tagged as Maplah, it is delicious. Same goes with a couple of other dishes like the meen varutharacha curry (fish curry).
Ummi’s desserts are definite Maplah delights. Mutta mala(sweet made of egg yolk), Chatti pathiri (layers of flour stuffed with sugar, nuts and grated cocunut) and kaya nerachiyatu (stuffed banana) can be a meal by itself if you look at the calorie count.
Weight-watchers, do not try them. But for those with a sweet tooth, you must not miss the chance.
The Maplah Festival is on at Karavalli restaurant at Taj Gateway till March 30. A meal for two will cost around Rs 2,000.
So much to know, so much to learn, jst soo much: Yuganta-Irawati Karve
Yuganta’ studies the principal mythical-heroic figures of the Mahabharata from historical, anthropological and secular perspectives. The usually venerated characters of the ancient Indian epic are here subjected to a rational enquiry that places them in context, unravels their hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly human motives, and thereby making their stories more relevant and astonishing to contemporary reader.>>>
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