Perspectives

V. Sujatha on going beyond the caloric discourse on food

V. Sujatha is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems in Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In her paper, Econometric and Existential Understanding of Food: Analysing Economic Growth and Nutritional Status in South India, published in Indian Journal of Human Development this year, she argues against the "binary between objective and subjective approaches to social reality".

Krishna Kumar on curriculum

Krishna Kumar is one of the most articulate and influential scholars on education in India. He has worked at numerous educational policy bodies including a tenure as the Director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training where he oversaw the drafting of one of the most progressive curriculum frameworks that the country has seen. He writes in both Hindi and English.

Interview: Kojo Opoku Aidoo discusses HaB on Radio Univers in Ghana

Subject: Humanities across Borders: Asia and Africa in the World As a part of the Interrogating Africa series by the Institute of African Studies in the University of Ghana, Kojo Opuku Aidoo had the chance to discuss the HaB project, the encyclopedic university and his idea of the grassroots pan-Africanism. Interrogating Africa is a weekly radio series that has run since 2013 through which faculty share their research with the community.

Manpreet K Janeja on rethinking street food in Calcutta, India

"Street foods are not so easy to define. Some of the challenges in defining what can be classified as street foods have been highlighted by Tinker when she asks, for instance, whether to include fresh fruits, chewing foods that are not nutritious and not meant to be swallowed such as betel nut with lime and spices, and "invisible street foods', that is 'ready-to-eat food that (is) carried through the streets by the preparer rather than the purchaser, for eating at home or to office, and (is) not for sale on the street called rantangan (Indonesia) or tiffin boxes (India) (original emphasis).

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