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<keyword id="19896313" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="andhra-pradesh" source="keywords">Andhra Pradesh</keyword>, a state known for its rich cultural heritage and vibrant traditions, also boasts a diverse and delectable culinary scene. With a blend of fiery spices, aromatic herbs, and fresh ingredients, Andhra Pradesh offers a gastronomic experience that tantalizes the taste buds and leaves a lasting impression on anyone fortunate enough to sample its delights. Here's a guide to some of the best foods to try in Andhra Pradesh: <keyword id="159461" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Hyderabadi-Biryani" source="Orion">Hyderabadi Biryani</keyword> Although Hyderabad is now part of Telangana, its influence on Andhra Pradesh's culinary landscape is undeniable. Hyderabadi Biryani, a fragrant rice dish cooked with marinated meat (usually chicken or mutton) and infused with spices like saffron, cardamom, and cloves, is a must-try. This dish reflects the rich culinary heritage of the region and is often served with raita (yogurt sauce) and mirchi ka salan (a spicy chili curry). <keyword id="12310794" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Gongura-Pachadi" source="Orion">Gongura Pachadi</keyword> Gongura, also known as sorrel leaves, is a staple in Andhra cuisine. Gongura Pachadi is a tangy chutney made from these leaves, flavored with mustard seeds, garlic, red chilies, and tamarind. It pairs perfectly with steamed rice and ghee, providing a burst of flavors with every bite. <keyword id="2646688" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pesarattu" source="Orion">Pesarattu</keyword> A popular breakfast dish in Andhra Pradesh, Pesarattu is a savory crepe made from green gram (moong dal) batter. It is typically served with Upma (a semolina-based dish) and ginger chutney. Pesarattu is not only nutritious but also a delicious way to start your day. <keyword id="20747916" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="royyala-iguru" source="keywords">Royyala Iguru</keyword> (Prawn Curry) With a long coastline, Andhra Pradesh offers an abundance of fresh seafood dishes, and Royyala Iguru is one of the highlights. This spicy prawn curry is cooked with onions, tomatoes, and a blend of traditional spices, creating a symphony of flavors that seafood lovers will appreciate. <keyword id="4193795" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Araku-Coffee" source="Orion">Araku Coffee</keyword> While not a food item per se, Araku Coffee deserves a mention for its exceptional quality and unique flavor profile. Grown in the picturesque Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh, this coffee is known for its smooth texture, fruity notes, and rich aroma. A cup of freshly brewed Araku Coffee is a must-try for coffee connoisseurs and anyone seeking a delightful caffeine fix. <keyword id="20747917" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mirapakaya-bajji" source="keywords">Mirapakaya Bajji</keyword> (Chili Fritters) Mirapakaya Bajji is a popular street food in Andhra Pradesh, especially during the monsoon season. Large green chilies are stuffed with a spicy masala, dipped in gram flour batter, and deep-fried until crispy and golden brown. These fiery fritters are often served with a side of coconut chutney, offering a perfect balance of heat and flavor. <keyword id="20747915" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ulava-charu" source="keywords">Ulava Charu</keyword> (Horse Gram Stew) Ulava Charu is a traditional stew made from horse gram, a protein-rich legume. Slow-cooked with a medley of spices and herbs, this hearty stew is both nutritious and delicious. It is often served with rice or ragi mudde (finger millet balls), making it a comforting meal, especially during the colder months. <keyword id="7214752" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pootharekulu" source="Orion">Pootharekulu</keyword> No culinary journey through Andhra Pradesh would be complete without sampling Pootharekulu, a delicate and intricately layered sweet. Made from rice paper, ghee, sugar, and cardamom, this traditional sweet treat is a specialty of Atreyapuram in East Godavari district. Its unique texture and melt-in-your-mouth goodness make it a favorite among locals and tourists alike. Andhra Pradesh's culinary landscape is as diverse as its cultural heritage, offering a plethora of flavors and dishes to explore. From fiery curries to sweet delicacies, every bite tells a story of tradition, innovation, and a deep-rooted love for good food. So, whether you're a food enthusiast or a curious traveler, be sure to indulge in these mouthwatering delights on your next visit to Andhra Pradesh. Note: The article is based on content generated by AI models like Bard and Chatgpt.

8 Must try foods to try in Andhra Pradesh

A top health official of <keyword id="68884" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="telangana" source="Orion">Telangana</keyword> has blamed "<keyword id="6484016" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pani-puri" source="Orion">pani puri</keyword>" for the large number of <keyword id="11950646" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Typhoid" source="Orion">typhoid</keyword> cases being registered across the state. Director of <keyword id="14439087" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="public-health-dr-g-srinivasa-rao" source="Orion">Public Health Dr G. Srinivasa Rao</keyword> on Tuesday said typhoid can be called 'pani puri' <keyword id="6361612" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Disease" source="Orion">disease</keyword>, and advised people to avoid it and other <keyword id="6361952" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Street-Food" source="Orion">street food</keyword> during the current rainy season to protect themselves from typhoid and other seasonal ailments. Referring to the habit of many people who gulp down several pieces of 'pani puri' at the roadside shops, he urged them not to ruin their health. "You may get pani puri for Rs 10-15 but tomorrow, you may end up spending Rs 5,000-10,000," he said. He said vendors should also pay special attention to hygiene and ensure use of safe drinking water. Rao pointed out that this year, more typhoid cases are being reported. During May, 2,700 cases were reported while this number stood at 2,752 during June. Contaminated food, water, and mosquitoes are identified as the main causes for seasonal diseases including malaria, acute diarrheal diseases (ADDs), and viral fevers, which have been reported in the past few weeks. This month alone, 6,000 diarrheal cases were registered across the state. Rao advised people to consume fresh food and boil their drinking water. He said since January, a total of 1,184 dengue cases have been reported in the state. Hyderabad alone accounted for 516 cases. Almost all the districts reported dengue cases. As many as 563 dengue cases were registered in June while in the first 10 days of this month, 222 cases were reported. The state is also reporting malaria cases. He said district medical and health officers have been directed to intensify anti-larval operations. He also urged people to observe every Friday as dry-day to eradicate mosquito menace. Rao also said though the number of Covid-19 cases has gone up during the last six weeks, people should not panic. He stated that Covid has entered an endemic stage, and the symptoms are common cold and fever. He also remarked that Covid has also become a seasonal disease. He said if anybody has Covid like symptoms, he should quarantine himself for five days. There is no need for Covid test if a person has no symptoms. The director of public health said only those Covid patients who have difficulty in breathing should be admitted to hospitals. He also cautioned private hospitals against doing platelet transfusions unnecessarily. SEE ALSO : <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/locked-out-of-the-vauld-how-the-cryptocurrency-exchanges-vaulting-success-unravelled/articleshow/92827694.cms">Locked out of the Vauld: How the cryptocurrency exchange’s vaulting success unravelled</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/best-bollywood-actor-and-actress-comeback-to-ott/slidelist/92802567.cms">Best Bollywood comebacks to OTT; Sushmita Sen, Karisma Kapoor, Bobby Deol and more</a>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>An Indian delivery driver was filmed making food deliveries on horseback on Tuesday.</li><li>The driver was fed up after waiting for more than three hours for gas, he said in a video.</li></ul>An Indian food delivery driver was fed up with waiting in line for gas, so he resorted to an unconventional method for delivering food to hungry customers: horseback riding.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/indian-food-delivery-driver-heads-out-horse-long-petrol-queues">The Guardian reported</a> on a video clip of the man, who has not been identified by name, trotting along the streets of Hyderabad in southern India with the distinctive red Zomato uniform.Zomato, an Indian food delivery company, said in a response to Business Insider that it was discussing the incident internally.According to <a target="_blank" href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/auto/news/no-fuel-full-horsepower-hilarious-zomato-delivery-on-horse-amid-fuel-shortage/articleshow/106508447.cms#:~:text=A%20Zomato%20delivery%20agent%20in,decided%20to%20go%20old%2Dschool.">The Times of India</a>, a brief protest by truck drivers against a proposed hit-and-run law caused traffic jams across the city on Tuesday.The Times reported that it also led to long lines at gas pumps across the city as drivers panic-bought fuel, fearing the protest would lead to fuel shortages.In the video, the delivery driver rides a horse with a delivery bag strapped to his back.When asked by someone why he is on a horse, he can be heard saying there was no petrol for his motorbike, according to The Guardian's translation of the interaction."I waited in the queue for three hours," he added, per the newspaper. "I left after taking the order but couldn't get the petrol."In July 2022, a person was spotted riding a horse on the streets of Mumbai with a delivery bag belonging to Swiggy, Zomato's rival.Though social media users assumed it was a delivery driver, it later turned out to be a 17-year-old who had "borrowed" and "forgotten" to return the branded delivery bag, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/swiggy-horse-mumbai-food-delivery-service-b2120254.html">according to the Independent.</a>

An Indian guy did his food-delivery job on horseback after a fuel crisis meant he couldn't get gas, video shows

<ul><li><keyword id="95677" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jubilant-FoodWorks">Jubilant Foodworks</keyword> announced a new brand called Ekdum! with a variety of <keyword id="555496" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Biryanis">biryanis</keyword> from across India. </li><li>The love for biryani was evident in the stock market as Jubilant’s share prices jumped by over 7% on Thursday (November 17) morning.</li><li>Last year in March 2019, Jubilant Foodworks had also forayed into the Chinese food segment with its own brand – Hong’s Kitchen. </li></ul>The parent company of Domino’s pizza and Dunkin’ Donuts knows what Indians love the most – Biryani. Jubilant Foodworks announced a new brand called Ekdum! with a variety of biryanis from across India. And the love for biryani was evident in the stock market as Jubilant’s share prices jumped by over 6% on Thursday (November 17) morning. Its share price stood at ₹2,873.45 as of 11.45 am. <div type="image" title="jubilant." msid="79774160" hostid="261"></div> The company announced its Biryani foray with the likes of Hyderabadi Nizami Biryani, Lucknowi Nawabi Biryani, Dindigul Biryani, Kolkata Biryani, Butter Chicken Biryani, Egg Biryani, Paneer Makhni Biryani, and Tawa Chicken Biryani. Jubilant is also keeping its offering in the affordable range with a starting price of ₹99. "In line with our strategy of portfolio expansion, we are delighted to introduce Ekdum!,our new venture in the Biryani category. We see strong potential in this segment and are confident that Ekdum!, with its sharp and differentiated proposition will create a strong position for itself in the market,” said Shyam S Bhartia, Chairman and Hari S. Bhartia Co-Chairman, Jubilant FoodWorks Limited in a joint statement. The foray into the Biryani segment has also been appreciated by market analysts as the food item is one of the most popularly ordered dishes across e-commerce as well as sit-in restaurants. “Biryani is one of the most popular dishes and a large category in India— it lends well to delivery, sells well across lunch/dinner, appeals across demographics and offers scale and robust profitability/return metrics,” said a report by Kotak Securities. The report further said that there are three factors to keep in mind for Jubilant’s new offering – the pricing is attractive, the economics that can be achieved with Biryani is comparable to that of Domino’s, however, while Domino’s has a consistent taste offering through its pizza, managing the same with biryani could be a difficult task as it will also depend on the chefs hired. And, the company will also face competition from established brands like Biryani By Kilo, Behrouz Biryani, Biryani Bluez as well as traditional biryani outlets across different cities which have a brand legacy working for them like Hyderabad’s Paradise Biryani, among others. “JFL is opening three restaurants in Gurgaon for Delivery, Takeaway and Dine-In, with more restaurants planned to open in NCR over the next few months. In our view, this is a positive move by the company, which would help JFL to boost the revenue growth significantly going ahead,” said Amarjeet Maurya, AVP, Mid Caps, Angel Broking. Last year in March 2019, Jubilant Foodworks had also forayed into the Chinese food segment with its own brand – Hong’s Kitchen. Having started with a single outlet in Gurugram, the brand has scaled to five more stores. And experts believe that both the biryani and chinese cuisine offerings will help the company. “In our view, the platform is in place to accelerate store additions to 100-125 per year in Domino’s and 30-40 aggregate between HK and Ekdum!. We believe there is room for Jubilant Foodworks to step up aggression and investments,” said the Kotak report. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/india-has-a-hot-new-debate-on-its-plate-should-the-likes-of-burger-king-kfc-and-mcdonalds-menus-mention-calories/articleshow/79771040.cms">India has a hot new debate on its plate: Should the likes of Burger King, KFC and McDonald’s menus mention calories?</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/cooking-lpg-gas-cylinder-prices-hiked-by-100-this-month-how-much-subsidies-on-gas/articleshow/79772801.cms">Cooking gas prices hiked by ₹100 this month – check what happens to subsidies</a>

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<ul><li>The holy month of <keyword id="49461" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ramadan">Ramadan</keyword> this year falls between late April and late May. </li><li>This year, Charminar will bear a deserted look and <keyword id="706806" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haleem">Haleem</keyword> will be missed as people take precautionary measures during the <keyword id="8637077" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Coronavirus-lockdown">coronavirus lockdown</keyword>. </li><li>Muslim clerics in <keyword id="6354552" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="hyderabad">Hyderabad</keyword> requested people to offer prayers at home and ensure that no more than 5 people are in a mosque at the same time. </li></ul>Every year during Ramadan, the city of Nizams – Hyderabad lights up. The smell of Haleem takes over the night air and biryani restaurants gear up for massive orders. If you have lived in Hyderabad, a night walk in the old city through the markets of Charminar is a pleasure during the festival month. This year, Charminar will bear a deserted look and Haleem will be missed because of the <keyword id="1754604" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="coronavirus">coronavirus</keyword> lockdown. The holy month of Ramadan this year falls between late April and late May. The apparel, footwear and food markets of Charminar which come alive during the holy month, are also a huge source of business for the residents of the old city. People wait throughout the year to devour a bowl of the mouth-watering Haleem, but this year the favourite dish of many Hyderabadis might be rarer. According to <a href="https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/no-haleem-cooking-sales-during-lockdown-in-hyderabad-says-haleem-makers-association-618452">reports</a>, the Haleem Makers Association decided to not sell or cook the dish during the lockdown. The haleem business is <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/hyderabad-haleem-rs-800-crore-business-during-ramzan-now-on-gst-radar/articleshow/69299362.cms">reported </a>to be worth ₹800 crore in Hyderabad alone. Muslim clerics in Hyderabad have even requested people to offer prayers at home and ensure that no more than 5 people are in a mosque at the same time. Even during non-festival times, the city which loves to eat out, also banks heavily on street corners with homemade foods - referred to as curry points. However, all this has come to a close. Telangana has already ordered the extension of the lockdown until May 7 and has also banned food delivery services like Zomato and Swiggy. The state has 873 coronavirus cases with 190 cured and 23 dead. WHO releases Safe Ramadan practices Globally too the festival might be devoid of pomp and glory. The World Health Organization has released an interim guidance titled "Safe Ramadan practices in the context of the Covid-19". "Practice physical distancing by strictly maintaining a distance of at least 1 metre (3 feet) between people at all times. Use culturally and religiously sanctioned greetings that avoid physical contact, such as waving, nodding, or placing the hand over the heart," said the document. See Also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/coronavirus-cases-in-india-news-and-updates-of-april-21/articleshow/75265826.cms">Coronavirus cases in India</a>

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In India,<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-9-most-unconventional-courses-in-Indian-colleges-you-can-pursue/articleshow/51442075.cms"> several professions</a> being passed on within families from one generation to the next have become redundant in 21st Century modern India, thanks to the economic restructuring. The last two decades have completely transformed India's cities. Traditional industries have been rendered redundant and new technologies have outdone the need of laborious tasks. 
 
We bring you pictures from the new book, The Lost Generation, by author <keyword id="3295934" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nidhi-Dugar-Kundalia">Nidhi Dugar Kundalia</keyword> and those by photographer <keyword id="1759466" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="clare-arni">Clare Arni</keyword> – both of whom have been chronicling "dying professions" of India. 
 
First up - Those by Nidhi: 
 
<keyword id="58099" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Scribes">Scribes</keyword> of Old Delhi 

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 Back in the Mughal era, <keyword id="52564" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="calligraphy">calligraphy</keyword> was considered a virtuous and pious act. Members of the royal family often learnt calligraphy from the finest experts and offered them high positions in their courts. Wasim Ahmed, a scribe and teacher of Urdu, Persian and Arabic calligraphy, has been practising the art for over 30 years now. He once inscribed books and made hand-drawn posters and they then went to the printers to be replicated and were sold to people who believed the sacred verses would bring them good luck. But Mr Ahmed and others like him have long lost the patronage and the benefits that came with calligraphy after the introduction of Urdu font on computers. 
 
Professional mourners of Rajasthan 

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In the Thar desert in the western states of Rajasthan, where women from privileged and upper-caste backgrounds are expected to preserve their dignity by not exhibiting their emotions in front of commoners, the lower-caste rudaalis are called in to mourn for them. They cry out aloud, toss their heads, and wail to the heavens, beating their chests and slapping the ground in front of them. This goes on for 12 days after a death. Over the years, families now prefer sophisticated, quieter funerals with rising literacy rates and migrations. Rudaalis are therefore increasingly losing their relevance. 
 
<keyword id="3295936" type="POSITION" weightage="20" keywordseo="street-dentist">Street dentist</keyword> of Baroda 

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Amrit Singh's humble office is a street shop outside MS Baroda University. There's no mortar-and-brick structure, no ritzy chairs, no surgical light head. What you find is a few dentures, bottles and a tin box that holds extra dental tools. He makes his patients sit on a bamboo stool boot out any pain from their mouth with his corroded set of pliers. The street dentists in modern India learned their skills mostly from the Hubei community of China, who came looking for work in India in the early 1900s. Post-independence, regulations in dentistry practices were introduced, rendering street dentistry illegal but they continued to thrive in the dark underbelly of the country, tending to those for whom licensed dental services are still unaffordable. 
 

	Genealogist of Haridwar 
	
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	After a death, male members in Indian families travel down to Haridwar to cremate their kins by pouring their ashes in the Ganga. The ceremony conducted by the family "panda" - priests who double up as genealogists. They are also in charge of the family register, of updating the family's genealogical tree with details of marriages, births and deaths. The reason for their existence has to do with the Hindu belief that the family is everlasting and comprehensive and that each Hindu must "look out" for his ancestors and perform ceremonies for their journey heavenwards and immortalise them by recording their names in the genealogical registers known as "vahis". Over the years, digitisation of their records and increasing scientific worldview are eating into the pandas' work but those like Mahendra Kumar continue to work. 
	 
Ittarwallah of Hyderabad 

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Before they bought a box-sized shop, Syed Abdul Gaffar's ancestors sold ittars from a wooden box that hung around their necks, walking the streets. They moved about the lanes of the old city that were lined with the homes of nobles and relatives of the Nawabs. The ittarwallahs would be invited in and the women would buy their scented wares - a vial of "raat ki rani", a flowery scent reminiscent of breathing the warm night air, or jasmine that would lure their husbands to their beds. Mr Gaffar now sells the ittar (perfumes) he makes to the few discerning customers who still have a nose for it. There is an increasing demand for branded synthetic perfumes which are more cost effective. But he refuses to make them, says it’s immoral. 
 
Next up are those by British-born Clare Arni: 
 
Tinning Process, Delhi 

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Copper is one of the best metals for conducting heat and was often used in cooking vessels, so that the heat spread evenly across the surface of the pot. The metal can, however, react with acidic foods to produce toxins, so in workshops like these the pots are lined with tin on the inside. This profession is now vanishing due to the availability of cheaper stainless steel vessels. 
 
Woon Son Shoes, Kolkata 

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Christopher Francis Lin’s card said that he was an ‘Expert footwear designer and shoemaker’. At one time, each of the shoe moulds – or lasts, as they're called in the trade – were custom made to the shape and size of the customer's feet. But now, they sizes are standarised. “Then it was good money.” 
 
The Potter, Duza Siguiera, Goa 

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Several members of Duza Siguiera family work together in a small red laterite workshop producing hand-pinched pots. The market has become less as everyone is using plastic and stainless steel despite the fact that it’s good to use terracotta for health. 
 
(Image source: Clare Arni)

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Swiggy is a Bangalore-based food delivery startup that collated data from eight cities (Bangalore, <keyword id="12864" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chennai">Chennai</keyword>, Hyderabad, <keyword id="66" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword> &amp; NCR, <keyword id="2094" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pune">Pune</keyword>, <keyword id="6358070" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mumbai">Mumbai</keyword> and <keyword id="6354925" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kolkata">Kolkata</keyword>) where it operates, and tracked top five cuisines, main course items, snacks, and desserts across India to find out what the Indian cities are ordering in. 
 
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It has partnered with over 12,000 restaurants across these locations. 
 
These are the highlights: 
 
• Main course: the Indian cuisine--in its various north and south avatars--emerged more popular than its American and Chinese competitors. 
 
Most popular non-vegetarian main course item was chicken biryani, except in Delhi-NCR where top six dishes were dal makhani-naan, burgers, chole bhature, egg rolls, masala dosa and pav bhaji. 
 
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• Biryani capital, Hyderabad, made up for Delhi’s underwhelming response by ordering biryani even during snack time--between lunch and dinner--when orders in other cities gravitated toward street food and burgers. 
 
• Regional cuisines held sway in their geographies and in diametrically opposite locations. For example Delhi-NCR, apart from ordering chole bhature, loved to order masala dosa. 
 
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Similarly, Chennai showed a healthy appetite for north Indian delicacies. Mumbai remained truly cosmopolitan by ordering from every cuisine, and Chinese dishes found favor mostly in Delhi-NCR and Kolkata. 
 
• Most price-conscious city - Price-wise, Pune came out as the most price-conscious city due to its large student population. Rest of the locations did not seem to see the price as a barrier to getting good food home delivered instantly. 
 
Image credits: <keyword id="310615" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Le">Le</keyword> Casse Croute

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In 1906, in a lodging house for Indian students in Highgate, a pleasant area of north London, a young lawyer called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi dropped in on a law student called Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who happened to be frying prawns at the time. Savarkar offered Gandhi some of his meal; Gandhi, a vegetarian, refused. Savarkar allegedly retorted that only a fool would attempt to resist the British without being fortified by animal protein.
The meeting is said to have begun hostilities between the two young Indian nationalists; whether or not the story is apocryphal, there were real reasons for antipathy.
The two men had very different approaches to the struggle against Britain. Gandhi, who became leader of the Indian National Congress (INC), was a pacifist with an inclusive attitude towards Muslims and Christians. Savarkar, who would lead the Hindu Mahasabha, was a right-wing majoritarian who spawned the idea of hindutva, or Hindu-ness--the belief that the Hindu identity is inseparable from the Indian identity. Congress eclipsed the Mahasabha and, since history belongs to the victors, the story of India's independence movement became one of non-violence. But the strand of thought that Savarkar represented was more important than is generally recognised, and is enjoying a revival.
A member of the Mahasabha broke away to form the paramilitary Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), or national volunteer organisation, in 1925, modelled, some say, on the British army. A social rather than explicitly political organisation, it presented itself as the world's largest non-governmental group, in which like-minded, khaki-uniformed men could gather for dawn calisthenics. It recruited boys at an impressionable age, as the Jesuits did, the better to inculcate them with discipline and with passion for the cause. One such was the eight-year-old Narendra Modi. The future prime minister attended training sessions with the RSS, was subsequently inducted as a cadet, and in 1985 was assigned by the RSS to its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party, which he rose to lead.
Mr Modi is India's strongest leader since Indira Gandhi, and its most controversial. The source of controversy is his failure in 2002, when chief minister of Gujarat, to avert a massacre of Muslims, which opponents attribute to a hostility to Muslims born of the ideology that Savarkar spawned. Mr Modi has never apologised for the massacre, though he said last year that he felt regret over them, as he would at seeing a puppy run over in the street. Nor has he made any attempt to distance himself from the RSS.
The RSS, meanwhile, is becoming more overtly political. Mohan Bhagwat, its current leader, is somewhat in the mould of Savarkar, paraphrasing his beliefs and promoting Hindutva. In August this year Mr Bhagwat directly echoed Savarkar by saying all who live in "Hindustan" are in fact Hindus, whatever Muslims, Christians or secular Hindus might say. More striking, the RSS leader has switched the organisation's methods. Now, far from eschewing party politics, the group has become an enthusiastic and effective actor within it. The RSS's millions of members and volunteers (no one knows just how many active ones there really are) played a big role in electing the BJP by a landslide in 2014. At least 19 ministers in government, including Mr Modi, have a background in the RSS. Its leaders are seconded to senior posts in the party too. So the ideas of the man who inspired the RSS matter more than ever before.
<h3>The naked jumper</h3>
The lawyer described by a British official in 1906 as "a small man with an intelligent face and a nervous manner" does not sound like the muscular hero that Indian nationalists crave, but Savarkar clearly had a certain dash. In 1910, while he was in London, he was charged with conspiring to wage war against the king and with providing weapons used to assassinate a Briton in the Indian civil service, sentenced to two life terms--50 years--in jail and sent back to India. While the steamship "Morea" was berthed in Marseille harbour, he slipped away from his guards, leapt, almost naked, into the sea and swam ashore. Unfortunately for the eulogists, he was promptly caught by French police and bundled back to the ship.
His daring did, however, win him fame, and also created legal history. France's government, annoyed that Britain had overseen an arrest on its territory, wanted Savarkar returned. Britain refused so the matter went to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. It ruled his arrest was indeed "irregular", but decided Savarkar might as well stay in India. The case was one of the earliest heard by the tribunal.
Savarkar's next stop was the Andaman Islands--a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal. This palm-fringed tropical paradise served as a penal colony for the British. Cellular Jail in the capital, Port Blair, is now a memorial for freedom campaigners. In a park opposite stands a row of statues of independence heroes. One is of a slender man with a pinched face behind round spectacles. A pen protrudes from his jacket pocket, one hand rests on a part-furled umbrella and the other wags a finger at the sky. You might mistake him for a prissy bank manager, but a plaque identifies him as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The park is named after him.
Ranjit Savarkar, his great-nephew, who runs the Savarkar trust, says that he showed great fortitude in jail. A trained yogi, he overcame thoughts of suicide. Other inmates nicknamed him "Barrister Babu", for his London legal training. Already a published historian and poet, he used Cellular Jail to work on his writing--literally: he wrote on its walls. He spent a decade there before being moved to the mainland in 1921. He was subsequently freed, after pledging to keep out of politics--a promise which the ideology he was developing in jail suggests he did not intend to keep.
A fierce nationalist, he adored Guiseppe Mazzini, who fought for the unification of Italy, writing about him in the hope of inspiring resistance to the British in India. Savarkar believed that India is really composed of, and must only be run by, Hindus. In his 1924 book, "Hindutva", he drew on cultural, philosophical and religious practices of ancient Hinduism, a rich faith that allows immense variety in how it is followed. But he also distinguished the ideology of hindutva--an attempt to unite disparate Hindus in a political project--from the religion. He himself was an atheist, and disapproved of aspects of traditional Hindu belief, dismissing cow worship as superstitious--a stance that would upset many today. He was an early outspoken opponent of caste discrimination. In the 1920s and 1930s others among the emerging Indian political elite opposed "untouchability", the rejection as sub-human of those considered "below caste". But Savarkar went further, saying modern India should drop altogether the idea of dividing people by caste.
His attitude towards Muslims, who made up a quarter of the population before partition, and other non-Hindus was less liberal. He regarded them as alien and separate, in effect not as real Indians. He was fiercely opposed to the formation of Pakistan and what his great-nephew calls the "appeasement" of Muslims. He believed that they, along with the Europeans, had crushed Hindus for a millennium--a sentiment echoed by Mr Modi in an address to parliament after his election this year, when he spoke of ending "1,200 years of slave mentality" in India.
Aside from his view of Muslims, the big difference between Savarkar and the nationalists in the INC lay in their contrasting attitudes to violence. He also wrote one of the first Indian accounts of the uprising in 1857, centred in Delhi. Known as the "Mutiny" to the British, it is referred to by many Indians as the "first war of independence"--echoing the title of Savarkar's book, "The Indian War of Independence". It was a gruesome episode, in which hundreds of thousands were killed, but Savarkar was untroubled by the violence, and seemed to justify the murders of British women and children. His works are steeped in a desire for revenge against those who have humiliated Hindus, and his frustration with the passivity of his co-religionists: "I want all Hindus to get themselves re-animated and re-born into a martial race." In his early years, he circulated manuals on bomb making. He approved of--and probably assisted in--the assassination of colonial administrators. He was suspected, for example, of encouraging a student radical who shot dead Sir Curzon Wyllie, a government official, one summer night on a Kensington street in 1909.
<h3>Rewriting history</h3>

Today, some Indians adulate him. On the day your correspondent called in at Cellular Jail, a party of jovial men in their 80s and 90s, an official "Eminent Committee of Freedom Fighters", was also visiting. Among the last surviving veterans who battled the British in the Quit India movement in the 1940s, they raised gnarled fists to chant "Jai Hind", posed for pictures and praised Savarkar as strong. The local MP called veer (brave) Savarkar a "ferocious, dangerous man who frightened off the British". Rashida Iqbal, the jail's curator, assessed him as "one of the most important freedom fighters". Port Blair's airport, like the park, bears his name. Some 2,000km away, in his native Maharashtra, a street and a park in Mumbai also each carry his name. (In London a blue plaque identifies his former home in Highgate.)
Savarkar's enthusiasm for violence sits uncomfortably with conventional ideas of how India got its independence. India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and then the Congress party (successor to the INC) promoted a pacifist narrative of history, the idea that Gandhi and the likes of B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer who inspired the Modern Buddhist Movement, triumphed through non-violent resistance. That meant downplaying the bloodshed of 1857, in which atrocities were perpetrated by both sides, and also the roles of Savarkar, Subhas Chandra Bose and Vallabhbhai Patel.
Bose, the Bengali leader of an Indian National Army against the British in the second world war and an ally of Hitler and imperial Japan, led some 40,000 soldiers against the British. (He didn't get far, though the Japanese briefly handed him control of the Andamans.) Patel, the "Iron Man of India", had the Bismarckian task of uniting the country. He oversaw the integration of 562 princely states into India, threatening and using military force. Operation Polo in 1948, a five-day conquest of Hyderabad, a wealthy and Muslim-run state in the south, was bloody indeed. Official estimates, only made public in 2013, suggest the fighting and subsequent Hindu-Muslim clashes there killed between 27,000 and 40,000 people. Some historians claim the real toll might have been five times higher.
The way the story of Indian independence is told is beginning to change. Mr Modi and the BJP are keen to celebrate muscular, nationalist figures. Patel is likely to have a much higher profile in future: in the national budget, in July 2014, the government set aside $32m to erect a statue of him in Gujarat, twice the size of the Statue of Liberty, by 2018. And while Mr Modi frequently invokes Gandhi's name and beliefs, he refers almost as often to Swami Vivekananda, a 19th-century nationalist who revived Hinduism and promoted it abroad. Mr Modi is said to be named after him (the swami was originally called Narendra Nath Datta) and frequently poses before his photograph. Vivekananda's ideas on invigorating Hinduism foreshadowed Savarkar's hindutva project.
Savarkar's profile is lower, but is also rising. Educational comics, hagiographies and patriotic films retell parts of his life story. In 2008 Mr Modi, then chief minister of Gujarat, inaugurated a website (savarkar.org) that promotes a man "largely unknown to the masses because of the vicious propaganda against him and misunderstanding around him that has been created over several decades", and in 2012 he launched a Gujarati-language biopic. A previous BJP-led government put Savarkar's portrait in parliament. On his birthday this year, May 28th, the prime minister paid homage to him there. Mr Modi tweeted about Savarkar's "tireless efforts towards the regeneration of our motherland". Ranjit Savarkar's group plans various events to mark the 50th anniversary of Savarkar's death in 1966. (Aged 83, he submitted to what he called atmaarpan--refusing food, water or medicine in order to die. It took 20 days.)
Yet Savarkar remains immensely divisive. He was a fiercely outspoken critic of Gandhi, still India's top national hero: he called Gandhi weak, a "sissy" and far too willing to collaborate with Britain. Gandhian talk of man's common humanity he regarded as utopian to the point of naivety. In articles from the 1920s to the 1940s Savarkar lambasted Gandhi as a "crazy lunatic" who "happens to babble...[about] compassion, forgiveness", yet "notwithstanding his sublime and broad heart, the Mahatma has a very narrow and immature head." Gandhi promoted ahimsa, a Buddhist rejection of violence which Savarkar called "mealy-mouthed". He said Gandhi was a hypocrite for supporting violence by the British against Germany in the first world war. Nor did he cheer Gandhi's prominent backing for the Ottoman Caliphate Movement, designed to win Indian Muslims to oppose British colonial rule.
Over the years, Savarkar was eclipsed by his rival. During the 1920s and 1930s, the INC benefited from its ability to claim plausibly that it spoke for Muslims as well as Hindus, which made it a more credible interlocutor with the colonial authorities. Perhaps more important, it had an impressive organisation and, in Gandhi and later in Nehru, accomplished political leaders.
By the mid 1940s Savarkar and his supporters in the Mahasabha (which he led until his death) had a new gripe against Gandhi. They were enraged at the prospect of Pakistan seceding from India. Gandhi, in their eyes, did nothing to stop that "vivisection". Worse, he seemed to favour Pakistan when it sent forces to violently seize Kashmir, evidence to Savarkar that warlike Muslims were again crushing passive Hindus. When Nehru applied economic sanctions on Pakistan (refusing to pass on its share of central-bank funds from before independence), Gandhi launched a fast in protest and forced him to back down. To Savarkar's followers in the Mahasabha, that constituted national betrayal.
On January 30th 1948 Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi. The killer, Nathuram Godse, was a member of the Mahasabha, edited its newspaper and was an associate of Savarkar's. Godse's explanation of his actions echoed Savarkar: he said he murdered Gandhi for his "false notions of Hindu-Muslim unity" and in fury over the secession of Pakistan. Savarkar was arrested and tried as a plotter in the murder. He denied all and was acquitted. That did not convince everybody. As the leader of the Mahasabha, who had praised the efficacy of violence and railed against Muslims, it was reasonable to suspect he had at least inspired Gandhi's killer. A.G. Noorani, author of a book on Savarkar and Godse, goes further. He draws a parallel to the Kensington murder of Wylie in 1909, saying the elder man had twice pressed others to pull the trigger. "I would definitely call him complicit in the assassination of Gandhi," he concludes. He points, too, to an official commission of inquiry into Gandhi's death, in the late 1960s, which drew on testimony unavailable at the original trial. It found the evidence was "destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by Savarkar and his group". Following Gandhi's murder the RSS was also banned, for a year. Yet the final reason why Savarkar should remain unacceptable in modern India goes beyond suspicion over Gandhi's murder. It lies in his attitude to his fellow, non-Hindu, Indians. In his own writing he relates joyfully how as a 12-year-old boy he led a gang of schoolmates to stone his village mosque and smash its windows and tiles, in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim riots. Relating how "we vandalised the mosque to our heart's content", he adds that when confronted by Muslim boys, he and his pals wielded knives and sticks and chased them away.
Throughout his writing he sets out Muslims as savage, immoral, sensual and eager to destroy the Hindu way of life. In 1937 he wrote of there being "two antagonistic nations living side by side in India", an idea that relies on using religion as the defining characteristic of any Indian, one utterly against the secular constitution of India. And while he occasionally wrote admiringly of the political and religious fervour of Islam, or rather of Muslim political leaders, he did so to encourage his fellow Hindus to match or exceed it.
In India today the fear of communal clashes--between Hindus and Muslims--should not be overblown. But it is never far away. Especially before elections, parties exploit religious tensions. Those who promote hindutva and echo Savarkar whip up stories of "love jihad", alleging that Muslim men convert large numbers of Hindu women by seducing them. Earlier this month a BJP parliamentarian praised Godse as a "patriot" equal to Gandhi. Members of the increasingly influential RSS feel emboldened. Such majoritarian politics, when a larger religious group sets out to absorb or flatten a minority, is utterly destructive. One need only look at the failure of Pakistan as a reminder of that. Sarvarkar could be a brilliant, eloquent and progressive leader. He could also be extremist, violent and divisive. If his influence grows, India's tolerance and moderation will be at risk.
"Notwithstanding his...broad heart, the Mahatma has a very narrow and immature head," wrote Savarkar
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Savarkar (back row, second left) was arrested and tried as a plotter in Gandhi's murder. He was acquitted
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