We’ve all eaten a modak once. The third pleat always gives it away. Pinch too hard, and the ukad, the steamed rice-flour dough that forms the modak’s outer shell, splits along the seam, and the coconut-jaggery filling starts leaking out before the thing even reaches the steamer.Every home cook who has attempted ukadiche modak, the…
‘Padayaatra’ trailer_ Mammootty reunites with Adoor Gopalakrishnan after three decades. The trailer for Mammootty and Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s much-awaited movie ‘Padayaatra’ has been released. It gives the audience their first glimpse of the period drama where the superstar will play a doctor. About the ‘Padayaatra’ trailer The one-minute, 14-second trailer introduces Mammootty as a doctor who…
Pakistan’s head coach Mike Hesson, center, raises a hand while speaking to the team. (AP Photo) Mike Hesson has opened the door to a permanent role as Pakistan’s Test coach after stepping in for the third Test in the team’s 0-3 series whitewash against England, while Shaheen Shah Afridi has made his own intentions clear…
Former Sri Lankan cricketer Chaminda Vaas (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India left-arm pacer Chaminda Vaas is set to join Delhi Capitals as bowling coach for the upcoming season. The franchise has been in talks with a couple of former India bowlers but things didn’t materialise.TOI understands that the franchise had approached Zaheer Khan and…
Ganesha’s single tusk is in his prayers before it is in his idols. The Ganapati Atharvashirsha, a short Upanishadic text recited in temples every day, carries the Ganesha Gayatri, which begins “ekadantaya vidmahe”, roughly, “let us know the one-tusked one.” Ekadanta, the one with a single tusk, is how devotees address him.So the missing tusk…
Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attend the US Open Final Women’s match over the weekend in style. (Instagram) Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attended the US Open women’s final in style along with many other celebrities. (Instagram) Brad Pitt and Ines De Ramon attend the US Open Final Women’s match over the weekend…
On the night of Anant Chaturdashi, the sand at Mumbai’s Girgaon Chowpatty vanishes underfoot. A truck carrying a twenty-foot Ganesha, built over four months in a Lalbaug workshop, edges toward the water while a few hundred men wade in beside it, chanting a name they’ll shout again next August. Within the hour, a figure that…
At the idol markets in Pen, the small Konkan town that supplies much of Maharashtra’s Ganesha idols every year, buyers do something you won’t see at a shop selling any other kind of statue. They pick the idol up, turn it slightly, and check which way the trunk curves before they check the price. It’s…
MUD TO METAL: 1962 Asiad gold winner Maruti Mane (L-R), the legendary ‘Master’ Chandgi Ram and Hangzhou bronze medallist Antim Panghal Ever since wrestling made its Asian Games debut at the 1954 Manila Games, the continental arena has served as the battleground where India’s ancient combat tradition found its voice.For centuries, the sport had lived…
If you’re bringing Bappa home this year, put the alarm away. Most households rush to install the idol at sunrise, the way they would for any other puja, but Ganapati sthapana does not work that way. The idol goes in at midday, not dawn, and getting that one detail right sets up everything else correctly.In…