This week’s theme made me revisit my school days when I was in 8th standard. It’s still a mystery to me, how I vividly remember that day when for the first time I tasted banana peels. It was the last week of Ramadan, I had returned from school, hungry and …
Read More »Loss of Cultural Knowledge #2: Library destroyed, Scientist murdered in the name of religion!
Alexandria, the city named after Alexander the Great, once hosted over a million scrolls at the Great Library of Alexandria. The library was created in 3rd century BC by King Ptolemy I, the successor of Alexander. Hypatia, the first female mathematician of the world, was born in the very same …
Read More »Loss of Cultural Knowledge #1: Did an Atomic War destroy Mohenjo-daro?
The Indus Valley Civilization was arguably the most advanced ancient civilization that we know of. However, the sudden end or destruction or abandonment of the Indus Valley Civilization and Mohenjo-daro is a mystery. Built around 2500 BCE, Mohenjo-daro was one of the biggest urban settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization. …
Read More »The Heavy Metal Chef: An Interview with Sahil Makhija A.K.A The Demonstealer
Picture yourself in front of a 2000 strong audience, as you intensely scream into the microphone in musical ecstasy, shredding blazing fast symphonies on the guitar as the drummer fills the atmosphere with the thundering double bass patterns, which sound like Odin’s stomach rumbling. Amidst the layers of symphonies and …
Read More »Do you feel free, punk?
Let us talk about the illusion of free will. “Hukabakuchinukamakazire” One of the most important quotes that humanity would ever come across – words by one of the first homo-sapiens to walk on the face of this godforsaken earth! (Fact check – I can’t prove it but you can’t disprove …
Read More »First tasting of THC Labs’ 5 layered biryani
‘Food Week’ was our first attempt at an alternate exploration of food and all we can say that we are still in the process of assembling ingredients for the flavourful biryani that we will be serving in the future. Eating is the most fundamental method in which we convert matter …
Read More »Food Week Recap: A Guide to Food and Related Ideas
If there is one thing I have to stand by, with absolute certainty, it has to be that knowledge and our hunger for ever more knowledge runs us, it alone propels us to do all that we do. At The Holy Connection Labs, we are meeting this ideal head on. …
Read More »Why saying ‘grace’ before eating is not a bad idea?
The norm of praying before meals is wide spread across various religions all over the world. In Christianity, the grace prayers before meals demonstrate gratefulness towards God for the food that has been provided (by Him). In Islam, an acknowledgement in the form of a prayer is said before meals: …
Read More »6 scary facts you didn’t know about your brain on food
You think you know your brain? And you think you know the food you eat? And you think you know how your brain combined with your food can trick you and scare you? Well, think again. But read on for now, if you are curious about these two things that …
Read More »The art of cuisine: Hand or no-hands, that is the question
If you walk through an eatery in India, you will definitely feel a bit out of place if you despise a “hands-on” approach to cooking and eating. The tradition of eating with your bare hands is one that has been heralded in Indian cuisine for quite a while. Most of …
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