He may think that the Itihasa/Purana Naarda may be an embellishment of such ‘a realistic or historic’ Naarada. That said, the book takes some very curious strands from popular variants of the ...

The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon, is an anomaly in the Hebrew Bible, or any ancient religious canon, for that matter. It's Biblical smut, basically, a steamy celebration of ...

It was called Nardus in Greece after the Syrian city of Naarda, but the Romans gave it the more romantic or certainly more domestic name of Lavandula. That came from the Latin verb lavare (to wash) as ...

The bar also knocks up some fairly stiff cocktails, the Sarah Naarda is potent but pretty with gin, violet liqueur, elderflower cordial and lavender bitters. There’s an ever-changing menu of ...