Restoration crews have worked for weeks to rid the school of asbestos and get its classrooms ready for students. The first day of classes are scheduled to being in less than two weeks.
Hundreds of Somerville parents are unsure where they’ll be sending their children to school later this week after an infrastructure issue forced a prekindergarten-grade 8 school to close for the remainder of the academic year.
kappa koi uthakka (chicken gravy) and
adu baadu uthakka (mutton gravy) to go with it.
The Badaga platter
| Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M
Paintings tracing the origin of the Badagas — the original inhabitants of the Nilgiris — adorn the walls as we dig into white rice after adding
avarai uthakka to it; this nutritious and wholesome gravy is a staple at Badaga weddings. There is also
ghasu soppu (mashed potatoes and spinach) that bursts with the freshness of wild greens harvested from their farm.
It is believed that the Badagas have lived in the Nilgiris for thousand of years. Throughout the Nilgiris, they live in nearly 400 villages called