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.
Sahat Zia Hero | Apr 28, 2023
From pleasure to protest
On how food helps us connect, exhibit power and protest.
Vidya Balachander | Dec 07, 2020
Who doesn’t put ghee in their khichuri?
On food and representation, online and offline.
Debolina Dey | 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.
Nandita Haksar | Feb 05, 2019
Southasian aid regimes
It is too often forgotten that aid giving is a political project.
Nilanjana Biswas | Dec 17, 2013
Seeding the future
The use of modern seeds stands to erode the genetic diversity of local seed varieties in Nepal
Smriti Mallapaty | Jul 15, 2013
Brideprice
A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.
Manik Bandopadhyay | Apr 25, 2013
Eat, drink, write
A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.
Suman Bolar | Apr 23, 2013
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