Indian Culinary Agenda - New Language. New Voices

Why

ICA

Indian Culinary Agenda is an Indian food knowledge platform that brings academic rigour to Indian food writing and research while, at the same time, making it accessible to a wider audience. The platform will enable and celebrate new voices; work towards developing a new and accurate language for Indian food writing; and try to introduce a more meaningful ways in which the world views and understands Indian food.

Culture & Agriculture

• Build bridges and partnerships between agri-food ecosystems.
• Deepen understanding of and build consensus around climate concerns in food value chains.
• Create awareness and deeper consumer-grower engagement.

Food Policy & Diplomacy

Engage stakeholders to mainstream sustainability and equity in food discussions.
Utilize food cultures to establish people-to-people connect.
Use food history, culture and practices for affecting changes in value chains.

Culinary Knowledge

• Encourage and enable evidence-based food writing.
• Enable innovative mediums of knowledge curation and dissemination
• Celebrate new voices and develop a new and accurate language for Indian food writing

Mentorship

One of the most critical gaps in Indian food writing is mentorship and formal training. We will be announcing a few mentorship programs with eminent writers very soon. Stay tuned.

The Team

Tanushree Bhowmik

Author, Researcher, Food Historian

Om Routray

Writer & Consultant (Agri, Food, Policy)

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

Writer & Artist

Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Independent Features Journalist & Food Writer

Charmaine O’Brien

Author

Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal

Culinary Chronicler & Consultant

Sankalp Vishnu

Author & Food Critic

Join ICA

Writers

Become part of a vibrant food writing community and contribute to how knowledge about Indian food systems gets created and disseminated.

Brands

Partner with us to deepen understanding of local ingredients, and build a better information ecosystem around your products and market outreach.

Organisations

Gain access to food knowledge creators to bring topical expertise into your discourses with producers, consumers and other stakeholders.

Indian Culinary Heritage

Needs A New Script

Imagine enabling an ecosytem where Indian food, agriculture and culinary ecosystem attracts and rewards the most talented knowledge creators. There is an increasing demand for accurate information and literature about local ingredients, practices and shared histories thereof. But given the lack of formal training or access to resources, knowledge about Indian food across media and platforms leaves a lot to be desired.

ICA is not another litfest or publishing platform or literary agent. It is an endeavour by the food writers to share resources, enable access and pass on working knowledge about the culinary and literary worlds. We believe in supporting scientific and objective writing that is assertive without being jingostic. If you share the ethos, we are looking forward to building this platform for you, with you.

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