Beyond the Plate - The Locavore

Unpacking ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’: What Cinema Reveals about Gender, Domesticity, and Labour

The Locavore Team
April 22, 2026

Set in Kerala, The Great Indian Kitchen anchors conversations around the kitchen, gender roles, and labour. Directed by Jeo Baby, the Malayalam film revolves around a newly married woman’s struggles in a conservative and patriarchal family. Through an upcoming online discussion, we attempt to unpack the realities surrounding gender and labour within domestic spaces.

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The Impact of Overfishing on India’s Marine Ecosystem

The Locavore Team
March 29, 2026

Highlighting the impact of overfishing and the climate crisis on India’s marine ecosystem and fishing communities, the session discussed the role grassroots leaders, scientists, policy makers, and researchers play in bettering our understanding of these intersectional challenges.

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Reading Between the Words: Demystifying Food Labels, Claims, and Jargon

The Locavore Team
March 16, 2026

LFC x TL Partner Producer Session

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Rethinking Seafood Consumption

Deepshika Pasupunuri
December 23, 2025

A session focused on the urban consumer’s plate, examining how our seafood choices shape marine biodiversity, local livelihoods, and culinary diversity.

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The Future of India’s Wild Foods

August 6, 2025

This virtual session opened up a nuanced dialogue about the place of wild foods in our collective future—on our plates, in our policies, and within communities.

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Understanding Millets and the Green Revolution

The Locavore Team
February 27, 2025

A session that looked to uncover just how nuanced and interlinked the history of the Green Revolution and millet cultivation in India is.

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Understanding Millets and Marginalisation

August 13, 2024

Understanding Millets and Marginalisation addressed a host of exclusions,from new forms of agriculture that sideline indigenous knowledge, to diets that are far less diverse, and who can really access and afford certain grains now.

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Jowar Gatha Film Screening and Discussion

May 16, 2024

While the discourse on millets has largely revolved around their benefits as a whole, what does it mean to explore a single variety like jowar (sorghum) and examine its impact on the communities that cultivate it?

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Making Millets Desirable: Millets in Food Establishments

March 21, 2024

What are the challenges and opportunities surrounding millet consumption in rural and urban India? How can restaurants and businesses potentially work with the grains to make them exciting and accessible to consumers? This discussion attempted to address just that.

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Millets: Reimagining the PDS for Food Sovereignty

January 30, 2024

A session focussed on understanding localised and decentralised approaches to the Public Distribution System in India that incorporate millets to better achieve food security and sovereignty.

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