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7 min

Inside My Kitchen

In Ahmedabad, a Kitchen on Wheels Builds Solidarity

Saachi D’Souza

Through an open-to-all mobile kitchen in Ahmedabad, artist Vipin Dhanurdharan imagines the community kitchen afresh. This performance piece feeds, but more so, it builds solidarities. Between the years 2012 and…

4 min

Producers

Dongaon Local: Ghee From the Kitchens of Dongaon’s Women

The Locavore Team

Dongaon Local is named after the village it is set-up in where the village’s farming community closely interact with cows and often make ghee with surplus milk.

7 min

Culture

What Makes a Potluck Tick?

Meera Ganapathi

Recalling a potluck in Suratgarh for which she took a dabba of hot thenkuzhal, Meera Ganapathi contemplates the unspoken rules of a potluck, and the essence of what makes one stand out.

7 min

The Locavore Champions

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

Rahee Punyashloka

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.

4 min

Producers

Tillage – Bringing Back Millets and Forgotten Flours

The Locavore Team

We were first drawn to Tillage’s produce after hearing the passion with which siblings Saloni Anchan, a lawyer, and Shival Shah, a chartered accountant, spoke about local and seasonal ingredients.…

8 min

Culture

Between Vegetarianism and Bans, Can We All Agree to Meat Halfway?

Suman Quazi

As pro-vegetarian and vegan narratives gain gumption in India, a closer look at the ethical, environmental, and social realities of this dialogue.

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