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Sitcoms had Cities and Serials have Stereotypes
Sitcoms had Cities and Serials have Stereotypes
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Taste-making, Labour, and Neighbourhoods: How Tamil tastes like in its southern coasts?
Taste-making, Labour, and Neighbourhoods: How Tamil tastes like in its southern coasts?
On taste-making, labour, and neighbourhoods from seaside Tamil Nadu
Blue Star & Nandhan Subvert Brahminical Food And Caste Norms
Blue Star & Nandhan Subvert Brahminical Food And Caste Norms
Pa. Ranjith’s Blue Star (2024) and Era Saravanan’s Nandhan (2024) have stretched the seeable, speakable, and showable food on screen for a Tamil audience.
It's the Small Things | Finding Permanence - The WireThe Wire: The Wire News India, Latest News,News from India, Politics, External Affairs, Science, Economics, Gender and Culture
It's the Small Things | Finding Permanence - The WireThe Wire: The Wire News India, Latest News,News from India, Politics, External Affairs, Science, Economics, Gender and Culture
I’m an avid watcher of drying laundry.
Event registration -- Book discussion
Event registration -- Book discussion
Neidhal Kaimanam: Coastal Lives, Recipes and Ecologies
Neidhal Kaimanam: Coastal Lives, Recipes and Ecologies
Neidhal Kaimanam is a bi-lingual coastal cookbook with photographs by M. Palani Kumar. Edited by Niranjana R, a scholar based out of London, and Bhagathsingh, a postdoctoral researcher from the French Institute of Pondicherry, the book merges the two defining aspects of the lives of fisherpeople—ecology and taste.
The Aural World of Nasir: Sound, Ritual and Identity
The Aural World of Nasir: Sound, Ritual and Identity
Screened at the PK Rosy Film Festival 2025 as a part of the Vaanam Art Festival, Arun Karthick’s Nasir (2020), an adaptation of Dilip Kumar’s “A Clerk’s Story,” opens with the first ray of light waiting behind the sound of pre-dawn Azaan—the call for prayer that emerges loudly from the Masjid and permeates the still neighbourhood.
Confronting Eviction in Manjolai: Care, Community and Resistance
Confronting Eviction in Manjolai: Care, Community and Resistance
The Vaanam Art Festival is a tribute to centuries of Dalit resilience and lived experience. The festival included the PK Rosy Documentary and Short Film Festival, which screened Samuvel Arputharaj’s Manjolai (2024), the story of tea-garden workers in the hilly terrain of Manjolai in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district.
On Manjolai Plantation Workers: Where Will They Go?
On Manjolai Plantation Workers: Where Will They Go?
Screened at the PK Rosy Documentary and Short Film Festival as part of the Vaanam Art Festival 2025 in celebration of Dalit History Month, Samuvel Arputharaj’s Manjolai (2024) is about five estates collectively referred to as “Manjolai”, which were once home to thousands of people in the hilly terrain of the Tirunelveli district but are now sparsely populated with only a handful of families.
Rice Stories of a Seaside Small Town – Shalikuta
Rice Stories of a Seaside Small Town – Shalikuta
FOOD - Bruite
FOOD - Bruite
"Coasts, Tastes, and Identities" hosted by Samagata Foundation
"Coasts, Tastes, and Identities" hosted by Samagata Foundation
Event Address: 4th floor, 46/1, Church St, Haridevpur, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Landmark: Church St social building, Karnataka 560001 Contact: 7708044887; e-mail: Sumaiya.mustafa93@gmail.com
LIQUID BIRYANI ON THE BEACH | enthucutlet | Food Mag India | Official website of enthucutlet India
LIQUID BIRYANI ON THE BEACH | enthucutlet | Food Mag India | Official website of enthucutlet India
Art Deco, aspiration, and air in middle cinema
Art Deco, aspiration, and air in middle cinema
Art Deco, which began as a movement in France, became a tool to display anti-colonial and pro-nationalist sentiments in India—making a marked shift in the streetscape of cities like Bombay. In cinema, it was used by creators to signal a motley of expressions that were often contradictory to one another.
Column | Inside the coastal Muslim kitchen
Column | Inside the coastal Muslim kitchen
Coastal Muslim kitchen: From kuzhi paniyarams with Dutch ties to the local cousin of the East African injera, TN’s coastal food shows us that history is preserved not just in our museums but also in our kitchens
Deco Dreams
Deco Dreams
Art, Aspiration and Angst in Middle Cinema Sumaiya Mustafa A fleet of Deco residences in a street in Kayalpatnam. Most of the houses were built in the 1950s. COURTESY: Thoufeeq K Having grown up in…
How Kayalpatnam is saving a waning language of the Indian Ocean
How Kayalpatnam is saving a waning language of the Indian Ocean
Tamil Nadu’s Kayalpatnam attempts to save a bridge language—Arwi—that developed in the port town between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims.
Watlappam - The Locavore
Watlappam - The Locavore
Watlappam,a culmination of three ingredients of egg, coconut milk, and palmyra sap sweetener,takes pride of place in the Eid festivities of Kayalpatnam, a Tamil Nadu coastal town.
Arwi: The lost Arabic-Tamil Language of Tamil Muslims
Arwi: The lost Arabic-Tamil Language of Tamil Muslims
Kayalpatnam’s Palmyra Sap Delicacies - The Locavore
Kayalpatnam’s Palmyra Sap Delicacies - The Locavore
Sumaiya Mustafa, a chronicler of Kayalpatnam’s culinary heritage, talks to The Locavore about how the sap of the palmyra, and ice apples shape lives and livelihoods in her coastal town in Tamil Nadu.
Palli Palagai: a telling object of South India's maritime stories - Museum of Material Memory
Palli Palagai: a telling object of South India's maritime stories - Museum of Material Memory
Lahore To Kayalpatnam: How Partition Changed a Family Cuisine
Lahore To Kayalpatnam: How Partition Changed a Family Cuisine
Photographic homage to hometown in Tamil Nadu's Kayalpattinam
Photographic homage to hometown in Tamil Nadu's Kayalpattinam
Ponavam: How an elusive, elaborate sweet bonds Kayalpatnam's women during Ramzan
Ponavam: How an elusive, elaborate sweet bonds Kayalpatnam's women during Ramzan
For Kayalpatnam's Muslims, indigenous sweets are intrinsic part of a rich edible heritage
For Kayalpatnam's Muslims, indigenous sweets are intrinsic part of a rich edible heritage
Rare Morsels: Culinary Secrets from Coastal Tamil Nadu
Rare Morsels: Culinary Secrets from Coastal Tamil Nadu
Watalappam: Kayalpatnam's Favourite Eid Dessert — GOYA
Watalappam: Kayalpatnam's Favourite Eid Dessert — GOYA
A medicinal Halwa like none other.
A medicinal Halwa like none other.
Our Dum adai made it big on Whetstone magazine
Our Dum adai made it big on Whetstone magazine
About Kayalpatnam's matrilocality and uber-ubiquitous Maasi
About Kayalpatnam's matrilocality and uber-ubiquitous Maasi
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