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Hand to Mouth: The Precarious Connections Between Food and Labour

Mukta Patil
May 29, 2025

What do we see and invisibilise when we think about the connections between work and food? What does access to resources—and organising for them—have to do with nutrition and dignity of labour? Photo courtesy of Priyanka Tupe/BehanBox.

In this anthology-style feature documenting the fraught relationships between food and labour in India, Mukta Patil gathers perspectives from journalist Priyanka Tupe, union leader Anita Kapoor, and economist Dr. Jean Drèze.

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“The act of foraging is meant to be a collective process”

Oishika Roy
October 30, 2024

Farmer and seed-saver Sunil Bhoye tells Oishika Roy about how seeds can be preserved by storing them in earthen pots and bamboo stems, and passing his knowledge of wild foods on to his daughter through the Wild Food Festival.

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On Chennai’s Besant Nagar Coast, A Fisherman Makes Sense of the Sea

Throvnica Chandrasekar
August 20, 2024

Retired fisher S. Palayam collects data that helps fisherfolk in Chennai navigate the weather and sustain ways of traditional fishing.

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‘The only sensible and sustainable way forward for our food systems is to localise’

The Locavore Team
July 31, 2024

Shruti Tharayil talks to The Locavore about seasonal foraging, how she became a self-taught herbalist, and the Musumusu Kai Keerai Rasam that she ate during her recent cycle yatra.

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Recipes of Revolt and Resistance: Artist Rajyashri Goody Challenges Deep-Rooted Casteism

Khorshed Deboo
September 29, 2023

Through her practice, artist Rajyashri Goody probes the perversions of caste in India, and how food forms a locus where the interplay of power and powerlessness is unfortunately most evident.

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Goa’s Plant Man Got A Head Start in Farming

Arti Das
January 11, 2023

The face of the Konkan Fruit Fest, Miguel de Braganza is not only passionate about organic farming, but also committed to nurturing young talent for a food-secure future.

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‘Fermentation allows me to slow down, and pay attention to the smallest of details’

Tansha Vohra
September 14, 2022

Stepping outside the framework of food as celebration alone, Dr. Dolly Kikon looks at culinary cultures through the lens of struggle, community, and hope. Tansha Vohra speaks to the anthropologist about fermentation, resilience, and the projects that demand her attention.

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Sri Vamsi Matta’s ‘Come Eat With Me’: Or, To Be Dalit and Eat

Rahee Punyashloka
August 11, 2022

For theatre artist Sri Vamsi Matta, cooking as an act of remembering, as performance, and as a communal experience, are ways of asserting his identity and defying everyday injustices.

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A Flame For The Future

Tansha Vohra
August 8, 2022

To combat the perils of indoor air pollution, The Good Stove Project builds fuel-efficient cooking stoves. Dr. Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka, who heads the project, speaks to Tansha Vohra about empathy in design, the importance of participatory research, and developing solutions that matter.

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The Marine Conservationist Reviving Lost Connections

Yamini Vijayan
April 1, 2022

Divya Karnad, the cofounder of InSeason Fish, is helping people identify different species of fish, and raising awareness on eating locally and seasonally.

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