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Via Corona naar totalitair regime?

‘Hallo mijn naam is Isa. Ik ben 34 jaar en heb een zoon van 2,5. Ik ben jurist. En ik geloof dat de Rona [Corona red. Mirjam] wordt gebruikt voor het uitrollen van een agenda die neerkomt op het installeren van een totalitair regime’, aldus Isa Kriens van De Kleine Activist.

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Indian 'kicheri'

On Saturday, It’s 'kicheri day' at our Duniya Education School in Varanasi, India. Almost 100 happy kids queue in front of the washing tub in the courtyard, to wash their hands and to grab a large metal thali plate from the basket, to get a big scoop of kicheri, dished out by cook Anju

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Vietnamese coconut balls

This is an adjusted version of a recipe I noted down in Vietnam where they used sweetened condensed milk instead of coconut cream. I also added the 85% chocolate. You can even make a yellow version by adding some kurkuma! Or red with beetroot! Play around and enjoy.

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Indian Chapati

Chapati is perhaps the most popular type of bread in India. Even very young girls bake them with the greatest ease on open fires or on a chulha and often laugh at my misshapen tryouts. It's not so easy to make a perfect, beautifully round chapati with the simplest of ingredients!

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Indian 'badan doodh'

Badam doodh (almond milk) is a popular Indian drink where almonds are blended with milk and flavored with saffron and cardamom. Prepared the traditional way, it’s made with whole cow milk and quite a lot of sugar, which makes it not only rich in texture, but for sure also in calories.

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Indian chickpea fritters (pakora)

Today, to celebrate Diwali, the elderly who are welcomed in our Duniya school every Saturday, enjoyed tasty spiced Indian chickpea fritters (pakoras) filled with little cubes of potato, sliced onions, some spinach, and cilantro.

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