To Eat And To Share

Cracked Egg. Photo credit: Quinn Daedal  Cracking an egg is its own challenge. But to crack an egg, one has to first acquire an egg. Or 72 crates of eggs. It’s why the Aunties-in-Maxi Collective approved the 3 hour 45 minute walk to the Enclave of the Dollar Uncles. See, in the Before Times eggs were […]

The Circle around the Pot

I The weather app warned that the evening would be muggy—a word that never quite captures the feeling of being slowly steamed, as if one were a batch of potatoes left too long in a covered pot. A kalboisakhi had tried and failed to arrive. The wind had risen, the clouds had grumbled, but some […]

Coming Closer or Moving Apart through Food: Paan Masala Couples and Dirty Gods

Acknowledgement: This essay came to fruition with the generous support of Centre for Labour Research and Action who facilitated my field visit and initial interactions with the community. Under metro pillars P/123 – P/125 where trains jog by every twelve minutes carrying tired eyes, dupatta covered faces that looked like balding eagle heads from afar […]