Most of what we think of as quintessentially Indian originated elsewhere. So what? Culture is a khichdi -- and that's delightful!

Welcome to Episode 12 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

In this episode, Amit and Ajay talk about the amazing khichdi called culture -- and how food, clothes, language, architecture all evolve in a giant melting pot of influences. Just as salmon sushi is not from Japan, most Indian food is not from India, and that's fine. It doesn't matter where influences come from -- once they get here, they're ours!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 Teaser and packaging
00:58 Introduction: Nothing is Indian. Everything is Indian
02:23 Chapter 1: Salmon sushi is not from Japan
06:07 Chapter 2: Indian food is not from India
17:18 Chapter 3: The Invasion of the Cavendish Banana
34:04 Chapter 4: Culture is a Khichdi
49:08 Chapter 5: Amit's Recco
52:50 Chapter 6: Ajay's Recco

USEFUL RESOURCES:

1. Amit on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
2. Ajay on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: [ Ссылка ]
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: [ Ссылка ])
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: [ Ссылка ]
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: [ Ссылка ]
7. How The Desperate Norwegian Salmon Industry Created A Sushi Staple -- Jess Jiang: [ Ссылка ]
8. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor): [ Ссылка ]
9. Pushpesh Pant Feasts on the Buffet of Life -- Episode 326 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
10. We Are All Amits From Africa -- Episode 343 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok & Naren Shenoy): [ Ссылка ]
11. A Scientist in the Kitchen — Episode 204 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Krish Ashok): [ Ссылка ]
12. The Columbian Exchange: [ Ссылка ]
13. India: Cookbook -- Pushpesh Pant: [ Ссылка ]
14. Cooking the world’s oldest known curry — Soity Banerjee: [ Ссылка ]
15. Did Frederick The Great Introduce The Potato To Germany? -- Matt Robinson: [ Ссылка ]
16. Against the Grain -- James C Scott: [ Ссылка ]
17. Caesar and Cleopatra -- George Bernard Shaw: [ Ссылка ]
18. Stage.in: [ Ссылка ]
19. When and where do great feats of architecture come about? -- Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
20. Make Me a Canteen for My Soul — Episode 304 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sameer Seth & Yash Bhanage): [ Ссылка ]
21. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
22. Narendra Shenoy and Mr Narendra Shenoy -- Episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
23. Early Indians -- Tony Joseph: [ Ссылка ]
24. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph): [ Ссылка ]
25. Who We Are and How We Got Here -- David Reich: [ Ссылка ]
26. Alice Evans Studies the Great Gender Divergence — Episode 297 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
27. Mayabono Biharini from BEDROOM by Somlata -- Rabindrasangeet busts genres: [ Ссылка ]
28. Sonnet 18 -- William Shakespeare: [ Ссылка ]
28. Sonnet 18 -- David Gilmour: [ Ссылка ]
29. Sonnet 18 -- Akala: [ Ссылка ]
30. Monkey Cuisine -- BBC Earth: [ Ссылка ]
31. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants -- Peggy Mohan: [ Ссылка ]
32. India Moving -- Chinmay Tumbe: [ Ссылка ]
33. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan): [ Ссылка ]
34. India = Migration — Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe): [ Ссылка ]
35. Varun Grover Is in the House — Episode 292 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
36. Ajay recommends this Kefir grain: [ Ссылка ]

Produced & edited by Vartika Singh: [ Ссылка ].
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: [ Ссылка ]
Chapter images by Simahina: [ Ссылка ]

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