Food

A Rohingya photographer’s dispatch on food-aid cuts in the refugee camps

The reduction in World Food Program rations for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is exacerbating their immense suffering. Food insecurity and malnutrition, already acute, are worsening.

| Apr 28, 2023

The cotton candy man

A short story.

| Dec 20, 2022

From pleasure to protest

On how food helps us connect, exhibit power and protest.

| Dec 07, 2020

Who doesn’t put ghee in their khichuri?

On food and representation, online and offline.

| Sep 11, 2020

At the Indian Coffee House

On the Indian Coffee House and the 16th-century Sufi saint who introduced the beans to the Subcontinent.

| Feb 05, 2019

Southasian aid regimes

It is too often forgotten that aid giving is a political project.

| Dec 17, 2013

Seeding the future

The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal

| Jul 15, 2013

On taste

An etymological and gustatory exploration.

| Apr 25, 2013

Brideprice

A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.

| Apr 25, 2013

Eat, drink, write

A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.

| Apr 23, 2013

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