Based on her investigative series on the central government’s rice fortification programme, ‘Our Rice Tastes of Spring’ highlights why the locals’ right to control their own food systems matters.
THE LOCAVORE GUIDES A Simple Guide to Buying Better: How You Can Support Local Food Producers CHEFTZAC | 9 March 2026 Illustration by Anugraha Mahesh. Supporting your local food producers…
A community effort to map the people who bring food to our plates.
Oishika Roy explores experiences of seed savers and scientists to gather proof of relationships between people and seeds beyond that of money: generational, and through the principle of commons.
In the changing landscape of Delhi’s Humayunpur neighbourhood, migrants from Manipur assert their food identities.
As unseasonal rains and rising temperatures reshape India’s coffee landscapes, smallholder growers working with Black Baza—a coffee enterprise—show how preserving biodiversity is the most apt climate mitigation strategy.
Golden pumpkin flowers, red roselles, magenta eggplants, and various shades of green everywhere you look. At Kolkata’s Gariahat Bajaar, shaak maashis bring a variety of winter greens foraged from the outskirts of the cit…
—Kalpana Padmakar, who runs Koli Katta, a small kitchen serving Koli-style fish, rice, and chapatis.
How to choose good fish anywhere in India For anyone who cooks seafood, whether once a week or once a month, learning how to buy the right fish is the…
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Industrial demand is making one of the most affordable species of fish along the east coast of India more expensive. E. Haripriya explores what these ripple effects mean for local kitchens in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu.
