Table Talk with with Anita Roy, Kishi Arora, Krish Ashok, Kriti Monga, Kurush Dalal, Ranjini Rao, Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal, Saba Mahjoor
Date: December 26, 2021
Time: 20:00 IST
Table Talk brings the year to an end with an informal chat with as many of our 2020 guests as could make it.
We’ll be looking back at the year and what we have learnt from it, with reference to food, but, as we have found through these past conversations, that can intersect with just about anything.
And of course we look forward to all of you joining us too.
We’ll chat for two to three hours, maybe more if you and our guests are willing.
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This was one of the best Table Talks. Thank you and the participants for sharing authentic life experiences which resonated with us and compelled us to introspect.
A lauki tendril climbs up gracefully on a mango tree. Life escapes a ‘singing dishwasher’ in less than five seconds. A deceased father blooms into fragrant harsingar flowers. Agati flowers mutate into crisp pakoras. American supermarkets stock garlic peeled by Chinese prisoners. A children’s book on death wins the Green Literature Festival prize. A stubborn curry leaf plant teaches a journalist patience and mindfulness.
When Peter Griffin announced that last night’s edition of ‘Table Talk’ would look back at food in the years 2020-2021, no one could have predicted the arc that the conversation took on. The panelists echoed each other in the web of connections that bind humans with ecology, animism and food. Through honest, vulnerable and tender exchanges, we encountered mulch, fungi that communicate, touch-me-nots that are sentient, and the rhythms of life and death.
Culinary chronicler Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal shared how her move to Dehradun, Uttrakhand made visible the life cycles of fruits and vegetables in the annual kitchen calendar. Krish Ashok, author of ‘Masla Lab’, has started teaching physics, chemistry and biology to his children’s classmates through examples from the kitchen. Ranjini Rao grieved her mother’s death by writing a cookbook.
Kishi Arora nurtured ‘babu’ - her plant who loves an indulgent bath and lives on her terrace garden sanctuary. Kriti Monga spoke about her struggles with grief and feeling disembodied as an artist and human being. Editor and writer Anita Roy described how a forest garden has opened her up to the ‘wonder’ that is nature and to lands which cry for ‘healing’. The last two years have forced many of us to slow down, to live in the moment, to appreciate both the mundane and sublime nourishment in everyday food. Thank you Peter for bringing together an evocative and haunting evening.
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