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History Kamathipura
The Food the Kotha Kept Alive
Before Bollywood mythologised them and real estate erased them, the women of Kamathipura fed this city something it still eats today.
6 min read 12 Apr 2026
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The stories behind the food. The people, the places, the plates.
02
History Fort
The Last Bun Maska
550 Irani cafés once. Fewer than 30 now. The marble is cracking.
6 min read 9 Apr 2026
03
History Konkan Coast
The Hapus Has a Portuguese Name
Hapus comes from Afonso de Albuquerque. Not a place. A person. The man who colonised Goa.
4 min read 24 Mar 2026
04
History Bandra
On the Menu: Bandra
From Koli fish dried on the rocks to Portuguese pork vindaloo to a 1938 Iranian biryani to the mid-2000s restaurant boom that made a suburb into a city unto itself, the food history of the Queen of Suburbs, birth till date.
12 min read 23 Mar 2026
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History Mumbai
Mumbai Was a Forest. Here's What It Tasted Like.
Chinchpokli means tamarind grove. Fanaswadi means jackfruit orchard. Wadala means banyan row. Mumbai didn't grow over its forest. It grew out of it.
11 min read 22 Mar 2026
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History Crawford Market
The Drink That Nobody Wanted
In 1905, a man stood outside his shop on Lokmanya Tilak Marg and drank a pink glass of something strange, in full public view, all day long. He did this because nobody in Bombay would buy what he was selling. That drink is now the city's most beloved dessert. This is the falooda story.
7 min read 19 Mar 2026
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History Coonoor
The Field Marshal's Kitchen
Sam Manekshaw commanded a million soldiers, won a war in thirteen days, and kept a pot of dhansak in his freezer for at least a year. This is a story about what a man eats, and what that tells you about who he is.
8 min read 19 Mar 2026
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History Churchgate
The Ice That Came From Walden Pond
In 1834, a man in Boston shipped frozen lake water to Bombay. The city served it as ice cream. Nothing was ever the same.
5 min read 17 Mar 2026