food

Interview – Shylashri Shankar
A close-up headshot of Shylashri Shankar. She is against a dark background and half of her face is in shadows. She is smiling and is wearing a red and black checkered shirt with a collar
Interview – Shylashri Shankar

So why do we have to have fixed notions of gender roles and food?
By Shikha Aleya
July 5, 2023
Interview – Shylashri Shankar
Editorial – Food and Sexuality
Sliced oranges and lemons along with whole carrots, ginger, turmeric, and red chillies on a rough grey surface.
Editorial – Food and Sexuality

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.
By TARSHI
July 17, 2023
Editorial – Food and Sexuality
Desire, Appetite and Sexuality: Indian Cinema’s Evolving Taste Buds
The posters of two Indian films - Six Strands (2011) by Chaitanya Tamhane and Aamis (2019) by Bhaskar Hazarika.
Desire, Appetite and Sexuality: Indian Cinema’s Evolving Taste Buds

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.
By Sourav
July 5, 2023
Desire, Appetite and Sexuality: Indian Cinema’s Evolving Taste Buds
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
An illustration of a feminine-presenting person wearing ornate headgear, jewellery and drapped in a pink veil. The person is positioned against a green background. A four-directional peacock design acts as a frame around the person. Inside the frame are the symbols for male, female and intersex. Along the four corners, the following words are written in red in Hijra Farsi: initiation, singing, clapping and death.
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates

This art collection bears the evocative title “Aching Palates”. Within its realm, each artwork embodies an emblematic act that accompanies…
By Anoushka Budhia
July 17, 2023
Brushstrokes: Aching Palates
Barabar Kha: Recipes of Transition
A photo of Pith ka Chaawal ka Puttu, black rice steamed with fresh coconut and kneaded with jaggery.
Barabar Kha: Recipes of Transition

Through the rituals of cooking, prayers and sharing our complaints of menstruating, we came together to give space and hold space for each other.
By Afshan Mariam
July 5, 2023
Barabar Kha: Recipes of Transition
An ode to kimam wali raat: The erotic adventures of paan in Indian history
White and red outline illustration showing a disembodied pair of lips smoking a cigarette.
An ode to kimam wali raat: The erotic adventures of paan in Indian history

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.
By Annika Amber
July 5, 2023
An ode to kimam wali raat: The erotic adventures of paan in Indian history
A Handful of Pills for this Body
A close-up shot of an open palm with different kinds of pills, both tablets and capsules, on it.
A Handful of Pills for this Body

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.
By Trijita
June 16, 2023
A Handful of Pills for this Body
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
Screenshot of a YouTube page. The video still shows a husband sitting at a dining table. His wife stands nearby, talking to him, pointing to a mixer kept on the table.
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men

Bakasura Chicken Tikka Roll. 100% Wholesome. Made for Real Men. In the home delivery menu card of a local restaurant,…
By Shikha Aleya
October 1, 2015
A Chicken Tikka Roll For Real Men
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