food
Bakasura Chicken Tikka Roll. 100% Wholesome. Made for Real Men. In the home delivery menu card of a local restaurant,…
The short-lived thinness had left me before I knew it. I became fat, and thereby undesirable, once again. A chasm appeared in my relationship with my body. Its ways of responding had become strange. My form became unfamiliar to me, and to those around me.
Paan is not only the bearer of stories but a medium through which these stories were told. And each ingredient that goes into the making of a paan has its own narrative.
Through the rituals of cooking, prayers and sharing our complaints of menstruating, we came together to give space and hold space for each other.
This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
Indian films have for long fed into as well as mirrored social and cultural practices. Many of them depict a woman as being restricted to the kitchen and serving delicacies during festivities.
Food unites, but as we are sadly witnessing, it also divides. What people eat and how they eat it is related in many ways to class, caste, purchasing power, and other factors of social currency and control.
So why do we have to have fixed notions of gender roles and food?
Radhika Chandiramani founded TARSHI in 1996. She is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership Development and the Soros…
I met Lamai[1] at a spa in Bangkok. She was eager to talk, and told me about her village eight…
“Life’s too small without freshly cut coriander
Generously sprinkled on kadhai chicken.
Mint leaves blitzing their way with tomatoes
Ripe from the vine to the fingers dripping chutney –
Fragrances of earth between all this concrete.”
“You know, most healthy girls get this disorder if they don’t lose weight easily,” chimed my high school best friend…
Food is some sort of extension of our bodies, our identities, and therefore food and sexuality intersect in a myriad ways.
Time: 1hr 47min In English, Spanish and Japanese, with English subtitles “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if…