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Even if most of us may not be ‘breakfast people’ in our daily lives, when we travel, we become scavengers for what new cultures eat in the morning; we go looking for the best coffee, the crispest dosas, the best bowl of breakfast noodles that a place has to offer. One day, we sat talking […]
The promises and surprises of a Sri Lankan Breakfast in Victoria Park, London Saturday afternoons are always busy at Victoria Park in East London, particularly in the summer stretch of July and August. My recent visit, in July, 2022, coincided with the celebration of Eid-ul-Azha and the start of school holidays. The sprawling park buzzed […]
Kara Nichha’s puri patha tells the stories of Indians and AmaZulu communities in South-Africa If you only have 3.50 rand (Rs.16.60) in your pocket, and are looking for a spicy and tangy breakfast in South Africa, look no further than Kara Nichha’s puri patha. The small, handheld snack is made with a filling of madumbi […]
The Parsi community has the most well-defined breakfast in India, argues Kurush Dalal, and he tells us about its many influences “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, I probably heard my mother say this more often than anything else. She was an extremely pro-breakfast person, and her idea of a breakfast ranged […]
Whether in Glasgow, Mumbai, or New Delhi, home is a breakfast sandwich A few months before I turned 24, I boarded a RyanAir flight to Lisbon carrying only a backpack and loose strands of essentials: passport, notebook, blotchy Ziploc bag with bits of cucumber and salt. I was being ferried from Brussels, where I lived […]
Kabir Naik is a 19-year-old founder and documentary filmmaker based in Delhi, India. With a specialization in non-fiction media, his films portray the subjects of cultural communication, representation of rural issues, agrarian distress, environmental degradation, and commodification of culture. His films have been highly acclaimed and represented at international and national film festivals, including “The […]
At Singapore’s Madras New Woodlands Restaurant, the appam and its customers have come a long way I’m neither a morning nor a breakfast person. But when I have to be up early and head to the market for fresh groceries, a spot of breakfast with a strong cup of coffee is necessary. Even though I […]
On kinetic, roving breakfasts in Arun Kolatkar’s ‘Breakfast Time at Kala Ghoda’ The series of poems, Breakfast Time at Kala Ghoda by Arun Kolatkar, doesn’t start in the mentioned South Bombay neighbourhood. The first six poems move around the world, and even outside it: when on a Russian spaceship, the poet declares that the cosmonauts […]
Breakfasts in Kolkata’s Musholman Paras neighbourhood tell varied stories of migration and history The colossal, red sandstone structure of the Nakhoda Mosque in Central Kolkata rises from a chaotic warren of lanes and alleyways crowded with shops selling everything from chequered lungis, silk kurtas, and fragrant ittar in cut-glass bottles, to tobacco, utensils, and cheap […]
In trying to curate her favourite breakfast, a Pakistani writer in Delhi negotiates her many identities In 2016, I crossed the historically contentious Wagah Border between India and Pakistan to study at a prestigious university in Haryana. Even though I didn’t know it at the time, I was leaving my beloved Karachi, where I was […]