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The Answer to “Where Are You From?” Depends on Where I Am

How to deal with prying questions and shifting identities

Oct 18, 2024

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Oct 18, 2024

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How to Choose a Good Indian Restaurant

My system will better your odds of bagging a good Indian meal in an unfamiliar town

Aug 10, 2024

Frontage of Mumbai Magic restaurant under a residential building with a apartment above the signage. There is a small patch of greenery and a man standing on the curb.

Aug 10, 2024

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I Was a White Man in Africa

I know because that’s what they called me

Mar 22, 2024

Two teenage boys wearing t-shirts looking into camera. One of them is smiling. There is a wooden shack and people in the background

Mar 22, 2024

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My Home Is No More

Loss of place can leave you unmoored

Dec 18, 2023

My Home Is No More

Dec 18, 2023

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There Is No Curry in Indian Food

Blame it on the English language’s inability to find the appropriate words

Sep 22, 2023

Plate of Indian food

Sep 22, 2023

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Japan Cake and Varkey Cookies — Sweet Secrets from India’s Colonial Past

These are NOT on your neighborhood Indian restaurant’s dessert menu

Feb 8

Japan cake, a nut-meringue based pastry dessert topped with a chocolate coin on a stainless steel plate

Feb 8

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The Great Indian Head Shake

It is as if a billion people have set out to confuse you

Jan 30

Smiling Indian man wearing a large red turban and traditional Rajasthani dress

Jan 30

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I Hated Eggplant — Then My Wife Intervened

This is the recipe she used

Nov 1, 2024

Supermarket produce area showing different types of eggplant, including green, light purple, dark purple, bulbous and long varieties.

Nov 1, 2024

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Ordering Room Service in Nigeria Is Not Easy

Sometimes even the most mundane conversation can descend into farce

Oct 30, 2024

Statue of three wise men in Lagos, Nigeria. Each statue is of a white cap chief with slightly different hand gestures

Oct 30, 2024

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The Greatest Peril of AI May Not Be What We Think

We need to guard against outsourcing our reasoning

Oct 26, 2024

The Greatest Peril of AI May Not Be What We Think

Oct 26, 2024

Sandeep Sreedharan

Sandeep Sreedharan

Travel. Food. Expat. Immigrant. 5 countries. 3.5 continents. Curious.

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