Indian Dishes Cooking in Gujarat & Maharashtra India is bordered on three sides by seas which provide an endless supply of all varieties of fish and shellfish. But strangely enough many coastal communities are strictly vegetarian, like the Gujaratis from the state of Gujarat, which borders on the Arabian Sea. Strict Hindus, they are a [...]

Zari is the gold and silver threads used in Indian brocades. They were mainly produced in Surat and Varanasi. In the late nineteenth century Zari was imported from France. Zari is generally of two types and Badla kalabattu. Zari was Badla of flattened gold or silver wire, the old method of producing pure metal without [...]