Table Talk with Nilanjana Roy

Table Talk with Nilanjana Roy
Date: 8 August, 2021
Time: 21:00 IST

Nilanjana is an author, critic, columnist, and editor. In A Matter of Taste (2004) an anthology of writing on food and its place in our lives, she collects some of the most significant Indian voices over the last century. She also did time in journalism and publishing, and for several years wrote the popular blog Kitabkhana. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Some two decades ago, she became one of my closest friends, and she and her partner and their cats have frequently been my home away from home in Delhi, where have I spent many happy hours in their bookshelves, pausing only to attempt to eat them out of said house and home or be taken out and fed.

We’ll talk about the intersection of books and food, yes, but being old buddies, we’re very likely to talk about lots else. (If you have attended Table Talk sessions before, you know that tangents and digressions from the alibi topic are a feature, not a bug.)

Giving back

Table Talk will stay free to attend and free to listen to or watch later, for as long as I can afford to keep it that way. But we would like to use our privilege to help others, so we’re asking our guests to choose a cause. Nilanjana has chosen  Goonj, especially for their work on Covid-19 relief. Many of you would have heard of Goonj as the organisation that collects used clothes, bed linen and the like, but they are so much more. If you would like to say thank you to Nilanjana for the session, please donate what you can at their donation page.

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