Delly Is the Best in the World for Street Food

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i'm a connoisseur, or a devourer, as it were, when it comes to street food. And i think that there is no street food better in the world than in delly - especially if you go to the older ters in chantney chalk. I wanted to say bangalow to this one of my very favourite cities. We eat more and we care about food more. But culturally, the pajabi or the north indian is obsessed with food. You never let anyone go hungry from your home. It doesn't matt whether that person is a stranger or, you know, it's just steeped in the northindian culture.

Growing up, Barkha Dutt was totally rootless. She spoke English, not her parent’s Punjabi. She devoured Enid Blyton and studied English literature during college, but read few Indian novelists. She didn’t even know her caste. This has opened her up to criticism as being a progressive elite who is out of touch with her heritage, and challenged her to be especially thoughtful in the way she examines the many overlapping values in Indian society. A successful broadcast journalist and columnist, she currently runs the YouTube-based news channel MoJo Story and recently published a new book, Humans of COVID: To Hell and Back.

Barkha joined Tyler to discuss how Westerners can gain a more complete picture of India, the misogyny still embedded in Indian society, why family law should be agnostic of religious belief, the causes of declining fertility in India, why relations between Hindus and Muslims seem to be worsening, how caste has persisted so strongly in India, the success of India’s subsidized institutes of higher education, the best city for Indian food, the power of Amar Chitra Katha’s comics, the influence of her English liberal arts education, the future of Anglo-American liberalism in India, the best ways to use Twitter, and more.

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Recorded May 5th, 2022 Other ways to connect

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