Ah, a long rant coming up. I have many thoughts, might just write a longer piece later. But here are my initial thoughts. Every year, the CNT Top 50 Restaurants in India list comes out and I find myself asking the same question: what exactly are we defining as “best”? Fine dining, tasting menus and chef-led restaurants are an important part of India’s evolving food culture, and many of the restaurants on this list absolutely deserve their flowers. But they are not the beginning and end of India’s restaurant culture. This year, Mumbai and Goa alone account for 26 of the 50 restaurants. Bengaluru has six. And while there are restaurants from places like Kasauli, Karaikudi and Shillong on the list - which I love seeing - the map of “India’s best restaurants” still feels remarkably small. Because the Indian restaurant scene is so much bigger than our metros. And even within our metros, some of the most exceptional food isn’t necessarily happening in the kind of restaurants we traditionally associate with these lists. In Bengaluru alone, I think of places like Malgudi Mylari Mane, Super Naati and Fireside, where they actually cook over firewood. I think of the incredible food coming from the city’s Northeast communities, and places like Roots & Fern in Kammanahalli. These are restaurants I find genuinely exciting. Places with a strong sense of place, community, technique and identity. That’s really what I wish lists like these would explore more. What about the tiny family-run restaurant doing one regional cuisine exceptionally well? The neighbourhood place people have been eating at for twenty years? The restaurant preserving a cooking technique that’s disappearing elsewhere? The small kitchen cooking food from a community that rarely gets represented in mainstream food media? And what about Mysuru, Mangaluru, Lucknow, Indore, Surat, Nagpur, Kozhikode, Kochi, Madurai, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar - or the hundreds of other cities and towns where people are cooking extraordinary food? Every year, I hope the definition of “best” gets a little wider. Not instead of the restaurants already being celebrated. Alongside them. Because there is so, so much more to India’s restaurant story than what can fit into the usual dining map. cntraveller.in/story/the-bes…

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1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.

This thread is for young ‘uns from poor countries who want to do development economics. We got a paper out that we wrote about South Africa, where a couple of the authors are from. Many people tell you writing about your home country is a bad idea

The Air Suvidha form was designed to make you regret coming/returning to India. So much information asked for including which 'tehsil' I'm going to. I have no idea how secure the info is. And what tehsil is Mumbai in yaar?

“What new cause area should Open Philanthropy consider funding?” Today we’re launching the Cause Exploration Prizes to gather thoughtful answers to this question and others that help us best use our resources causeexplorationprizes.com/

Some labour of love. It took us eight months to write, edit and think through the details of this article. The intention was to bring alive challenges on the field and talk to whoever works with nutrition on ground. Please do share feedback. :) idronline.org/article/health…