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Mehr Singh is a staff writer at The Juggernaut. Her work has appeared in Bon Appétit, Eater, Food52, and other publications.



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Ayub Ali, a senior government official helping shepherd the Dhaka muslin revival project, displaying a piece of muslin cloth in his office in Dhaka, January 2022 (Munir uz zaman / AFP via Getty Images)

How the World Lost Dhaka Muslin

Once Bengal’s pride, the translucent fabric vanished under the British. Centuries later, can Bangladesh now resurrect it?

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

Madhur Jaffrey (Shravya Kag for The Juggernaut)

Madhur Jaffrey, Always the Perfectionist

The chef, actor, and writer showed the West that Indian cooking was worthwhile and Indian women had bite. And she still has several projects up her sleeve.

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

A vendor displays eggs as a chicken stands nearby at Chennai's Pallavaram market on September 11, 2020. (Photo by ARUN SANKAR/AFP via Getty Images)

How India Became a Nation of Eggetarians

The egg’s prominence in the Indian vegetarian diet is a point of contention. The perennial question is: are eggs meat?

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

On 3 April 2018, the London Homeopathic Hospital stopped providing NHS-funded homeopathic remedies for any patients after chiefs said homeopathy was ‘at best, a placebo’. (photo by Barry Lewis/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Homeopathy in South Asia: Snake Oil or Salve?

How a German semi-scientific approach to curing disease became big business in the subcontinent.

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

A bowl of tadka dal (WikiMedia Commons)

In Tadka We Trust

Each drop is a sensory universe. Here’s how the technique as old as time came to define South Asian cuisines.

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

The Beatles in the late 1960s wearing Paisley, shortly after their India trip. (Shutterstock)

Paisley: The World’s Oldest Form of Cultural Appropriation?

How Europe stole one of the oldest block prints from Indian, Iranian, and Kashmiri weavers — and why everyone from The Beatles to Bollywood donned it.

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh

(Ken Faught/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

How Tandoori Chicken Took Over South Asian Thanksgiving Tables

For the diaspora, the no-frills dish has become a curious fixture of the iconic holiday meal.

Mehr Singh

Mehr Singh



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