Who’s Cooking Badaga Food? 

Pancake served with homemade butter. Photo by Chef Khaja Zafarullah "A South Indian meal with no white rice is surprising," says Jayalakshmi Srikumar, a Chennai-based retired professor of Economics who recently visited Harsha Bellie, a Badaga food enthusiast, at her lovely bungalow near Sim's Park, for a home-cooked meal. "It was a perfectly balanced meal with the right proportion of carbs, proteins, vegetables, and greens." Of late, many visitors to the Nilgiris are curious about the loca

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Nina Varghese is a writer from Coonoor, in the Blue Mountains of Southern India. She was earlier a business journalist with the Hindu Business Line in Chennai and with Emirates 24x7 in Dubai. Now, back home in the hills, she writes about the history of the Nilgiris, with a particular focus on tea.

2 Comments

  1. Sumi Thiagaraj Gowder
    on November 8, 2023 at 8:03 pm •Reply

    5 stars
    Beautifully written Nina.

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