Soups are good. They are good for the body, they are good for the soul. They can be had by the young and the old, by the dieter and the binger, in short, anyone can have soup. But making soup at home, isn’t it a messy and laborious task? Well, read on then! Two very easy soup recipes for you! Pumpkin soup Ingredients 1/2 kg red pumpkin (lalbhopla) 1 potato diced 1 onion cut lengthwise 1/2 cup milk Salt and pepper to taste 1 tablespoon oil Method Peel, deseed and chop the pumpkin. In a cooker add oil and toss…
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India has a power deficit of 12 percent with almost 300 million people living without electricity. Conversely, transmission losses amount to 1.5 percent of India’s gross domestic product. In such a scenario, achieving energy efficiency is most important. This is where Ecolibrium Energy, a smart-grid startup aimed at enabling consumers to manage power consumption in real-time, comes in. Founder Harit Soni takes us along as he describes his journey of innovation. Iearned my first rupee by trading WWF (World Wrestling Federation) trading cards in classes 6th and 7th, as there used to be a huge craze in those times for…
Innovations which help the poorest and the most deprived, are true innovations. India specialises in such innovations, though not many are widely known, made as they are mostly in the Indian hinterland. E. Vijayalakshmi Rajan looks at a cross-section to get a flavour of the Indian mind. I N Indian innovations are plenty and varied. They often arise not out of the need to solve some deep intellectual conundrum, but out of sheer necessity and desperation. Innovations which make life just a bit easier, or directly address the issue of cost and lack of access to basic infrastructure like electricity…
Sometimes a simple journey is all it takes to trigger an idea. On a road journey, Deep Bajaj and his friends who were at first amused, then irritated and finally concerned about the lack of clean toilets for the women in their group, researched, innovated and came up with possibly the first ever female urination device in India ‘PeeBuddy’. Here’s his own account of how this innovation happened, the arduous journey to market it and the way forward. WE are four couples who often travel together. On one such road trip (Delhi-Jaipur), the idea of PeeBuddy was born. All the…
This is the story of a young entrepreneur Deepak Ravindran from small town Trichur in Kerala, who from a combination of boredom, a deep interest in technology and a series of particularly fortuitous circumstances, started to innovate. This led him and his friends to found ‘Innoz SMS Search’, perhaps the largest offline search service in the world. The fascinating journey to Innoz is chronicled here in the first person, as told to Kumar Sundaram.. IN was born and brought up in a small town named Thrissur in Kerala, which is known to be the heartland of the state’s business acumen…
Parenting in Mumbai, especially the schooling part, can take a crazy toll on an unsuspecting parent. I will speak from experience in South Mumbai. Some years ago, we selected a nursery school for my 2-year old son in Colaba with the hope that he would have FUN and maybe along the way absorb a few things. What he got was a ‘structured’ introduction to the alphabets and formal work in the form of worksheets. At age two and a half he was ticked off for not knowing that ‘Fan’ started with the letter ‘F’. I was told by the head…
The eternal question is not existential. It is about survival – your child surviving the school day with the yummy (you think), nutritious (you know) snacks you have packed for her. But then, kids are notorious for not eating what you pack. What do you do? Keep trying, of course! And here are 2 time-tested recipes for school snacks. Let me know if these worked… Corn Bhel Ingredients 2 cups boiled sweet corn 1/2 Onion chopped fine(optional) Handful of roasted peanuts Chopped coriander Salt Pepper Juice of half a lemon Chaat masala ( optional) Sev Method ———– Mix the corn,…
Two great breakfast options, although if you are pressed for time be aware that this Spanish omelette variant could take a little more time than an ordinary omelette. For the omelet: Serves 3 4-5 eggs beaten well 2 tomatoes chopped leghtwise 1 onion chopped lengthwise 1/2 capsicum or coloured bell pepper cut fine Coriander Optional some spinach (palak) leaves chopped up Chilli flakes Oregano 3 table spoons milk Oil Salt Pepper Amul or Britannia cheese grated Fry the onion in about two tablespoons of oil or less,if you have non stick cookware, add the tomatoes and salt and cook well…
We Indians don’t waste much. We recycle everything from newspapers to plastic packets and of course, food. Just this morning I recycled a small bowl of dosa aata (dough). There wasn’t enough to go around for the family – I did what I have seen my mom do, added some sooji (semolina), chopped onions, green chillies, fresh coriander and curry leaves and voila! We had yummy, crispy sooji dosas for breakfast. I have done the same with leftover rotis (just fry the rotis with the onions, add some chopped tomatoes, green chillies and spices, perhaps break in an egg, and…
Being a professional couch potato and spending most of my time on the Internet, I was offended when I realized I was woefully uninformed on the war being waged on net neutrality. Since I am a part of the generation that grew up with a computer, I spent my days with my fingers crossed hoping that those nostalgic robotic noises of our dial-up Internet would bring me connectivity. And cursing the landline when it didn’t. The one thing I took for granted though, was the Internet itself. The fact that my (and your) internet service provider let you access all…