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Of history and the many tales in its labyrinth
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New Delhi, July 28 : She doesn t really remember when she heard the story of the woman she named Feroza Begum in her book. Perhaps it was one of those tales her grandmother narrated when the children gathered around in the courtyard of their rambling home. We loved to listen to the stories of bygone years as they had an immediacy, a reference point - about some relative or friend we knew, she recalls.
Author Tarana Husain Khan, whose book The Begum and the Dastan (Tranquebar) recently hit the shelves goes back to the year 1897 where in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan s Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce her, and her family
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Each box of halwa sohan in Rampur tells stories of lost food legacies
Each box of halwa sohan in Rampur tells stories of lost food legacies
The halwa sold today is not the halwa of my childhood. It has been revised, adapted, diminished, like so many sweetmeats of times past. Tarana Husain Khan
My childhood winters could not be considered complete without Rampur halwa sohan from the shop of Amanat Bhai. The halwa used to come in a crimson and gold box with, appropriately enough, the words “mausam e sarma ka tohfa”, meaning the gift of winters, written across it.