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In a plush, tree-lined bylane of Alwarpet, in a neighbourhood accustomed to buttery croissants and French- pressed coffee, sits a little corner mess where you can have unlimited portions of rice, dried fish sambal, meen kuzhambu, chicken curry, rasam, sambar, kootu and poriyal for just ₹160. At lunch on a heat-stricken weekday, all five tables under a quietly humming AC are full. “It is heartening to see walk-ins from every demographic: from security guards to executives in huge SUVs,” says 30-year-old Vikram Reddy, one of the four entrepreneurs behind Kaaram Karaikudi Mess. He pauses mid-conversation to bid adieu to an elderly guest with a cane, being helped out gently by a young companion — the duo has been a regular ever since the two-week-old restaurant opened. Repeat customers — and the patronage of established chefs and some celebrities — are Vikram’s proof that he was right in his basic business premise: “Everyone misses simple traditional food, and wants to eat it in … [Read more...] about Chennai’s young restaurateurs celebrate street food and home-style meals

The time is 6 am, and the sun is just about to rise from behind the horizon. There is a nip in the air that is unusual for this time of the year. I am seated on the super-plush seat of the Indian Roadmaster Dark Horse, as its massive 1,890cc V-twin chugs at a relaxed pace. The deep burbles from the twin-exhausts intermix with Coldplay’s riveting music playing through the quad speakers of the 200W music system. I am not sure about the American Dream, but riding a big, American touring machine is an incredible experience that will be etched in my memory for a long time. Here is the reason why: Take a stance To me, the first word that comes to mind on seeing the Roadmaster is ‘elegant’. The enormous fairing is beautifully shaped, with its curves and creases, and since this is the Dark Horse version, it does away with the chrome outline around the LED headlight and the twin aux lights that flank it. Instead, the LED aux lights are placed on the indicators, outside the fairing, which … [Read more...] about Indian Roadmaster Dark Horse: Black beauty on the road

Satellite imagery analysis of the Yongbyon nuclear complex by 38 North in November, which shows signs that the reactor at the facility is in operation again. [YONHAP] Uranium enrichment at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex appears to be underway once more as satellite images show the melting of snow piled on buildings used for uranium enrichment, according to a former official at the UN's atomic watchdog. Enriched uranium is used as fissile material in both nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear energy production. In an interview with Voice of America (VoA) released Monday, Oli Heinonen, who previously served as deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and is currently a fellow with the 38 North program at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank, said satellite images of the Yongbyon nuclear facility taken on Feb. 1 suggested the snow on the uranium enrichment plant (UEP) had melted due to heat emitting from their operation. “The equipment … [Read more...] about Signs of nuclear enrichment at Yongbyon