The technique of steaming rice flour shapes (idlis, puttu) arrived on India’s coastlines from East Asia, especially China, and was adapted to India’s non-sticky rice flours. As per local beliefs, puttu is offered to African slaves’ spirits in Fort Kochi somewhat like a ‘prasad’.
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** IE100: The list of most powerful Indians in 2021
** TNIE ThinkEdu Conclave 2021: Story of the Rs 50,000 ventilator by IIT-Kanpur
Authors Amitabha Bandyopadhyay and Srikant Sastri spoke at TNIE’s ThinkEdu Conclave 2021 to explain how they put together a team that completed the feat within 90 days.
** India, South Korea agree to go for joint production, export of military hardware
In the field of defence industrial cooperation, the sources said the two sides decided to focus on joint research, joint production and joint export
** 10-year-old Telangana girl one of youngest writers in the US
Thanvi Voruganti, who lives in Arizona, explores emotional turmoil amid lockdown in new book
** Bihar MLA Shreyasi Singh wins gold medal in ISSF World Cup
** I-League: Gokulam Kerala register historic triumph
okulam Kerala FC clinched their maiden I-League title in spectacular fashion as they came back from a goal down to beat TRAU 4-1 in the final match of the season
** New species of red algae seen in west, south east Indian coast
Two new species of seaweed have been discovered by a group of marine biologists from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. Named Hypnea indica (after India) and Hypnea bullata (because of the blisterlike marks on its body – bullate), the seaweeds are part of the genus Hypnea or red seaweeds.
** ISSF shooting World Cup | India settle for silver in 25m rapid fire team event
India’s Vijayveer Sidhu, Gurpreet Singh and Adarsh Singh looked off colour and settled for the silver medal in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol team event of the ISSF shooting World Cup here on March 28.
** The story of two women, adopted by Dutch families, in search of their birth parents in India
Face on milk carton
Last year, Jyoti and Regina launched the Milk Box Project, an initiative aimed at creating a network of adoptees in the Netherlands, Indian families who fear their missing children have been adopted, and NGOs and people connected with the adoption process. The drive is named after the American practice in the 1980s in which advertisements were put on milk boxes about missing children.