Stories from our Community

13 min

Market Archives

Beyond Transactions: People Hold This Market Together

Pankhuri Agrawal, Amiya Chaudhuri, Sreepathy Paliath, Shreshtha Chhabra, Chetana Divya

A morning spent at Bengaluru’s Russell Market reminds us of the forgotten art of engaging with familiar strangers, and taking pleasure in hand-picking fruits and vegetables for our everyday needs. Meet its people, and the produce they bring to the table.

8 min

Market Archives

Built in 1820, an Old Clock Tower Forms the Nucleus of the Market

Shivani Unakar and Dhiraj Chilakapaty

This heritage building is a mere shade of what it once was, and a visit doesn’t reveal its historical significance easily. Shivani Unakar and Dhiraj Chilakapaty on the design, structure, and systems of trade within a market that was established to serve the cantonment.

8 min

Market Archives

Russell Market: Almost a Century-Down, But Not Out!

Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

It is clear that the heydays of Bengaluru’s Russell Market are behind it. But it exudes an old-world charm, despite the disrepair and the slump in business, says Ruth Dsouza Prabhu, part of The Locavore-led group that documented this market.

5 min

Food Memories

Kayalpatnam’s Palmyra Sap Delicacies

Sumaiya Mustafa & Team Locavore

Sumaiya Mustafa, a chronicler of the city's culinary heritage, talks to The Locavore about how the sap of the palmyra, and ice apples shape lives and livelihoods in her coastal town in Tamil Nadu.

9 min

Market Archives

Pune’s Khadda Market: Seen Through the Eyes of an Architect

Smita Patil

Why don’t we treat markets as the wonderful public spaces they really are? Wandering through a local market in Pune, and speaking to the vendors who run it, architect Smita Patil is struck anew by this question.

8 min

Food Memories

What Does it Take to Chronicle Culinary Memory?

The Locavore Team

Author and cultural historian Dr. Tarana Husain Khan talks to The Locavore about tasting egg flip as a child, the tricky business of recording oral history, and growing up in a family of armchair cooks.

5 min

Inside My Kitchen

‘Nothing ever grows in Vagamon’

Yamini Vijayan

At Little Flower Farms, a lush biodiverse site in Kerala, they serve guests fresh produce from their garden. They speak to The Locavore of windy Vagamon, the flavours in their kitchen, and the land they nurture.

8 min

Market Archives

The Shifting Heart of Manipur’s Iconic Ima Market

Ammo Angom

Ammo Angom writes about the vanishing markets sprouting at Ima Market’s margins. Depending on who you talk to in Imphal, you’d hear them call its iconic women-run market Ima Keithel,…

9 min

Food Memories

‘Being a father transformed my relationship to food and cooking’

The Locavore Team

Moving across continents makes everyday practices such as cooking and feeding much more self-conscious, Krishnendu Ray tells us. A renowned food studies scholar, Ray talks to us about his changed perception of cooking, parenting, and his Didu’s jaggery-sweetened moorki.

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