COVID-19 and Challenges of Urban Informality in Delhi, India
Published Date: August 16, 2020
Episode: 92
This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica, whose forthcoming issue is entirely devoted to COVID Dispatches—in it, authors from around the world offer short, intimate portraits of early responses to the food crises of this pandemic, and hosts from the journal’s editorial collective will be joined by some of the featured authors to share their stories, and to hear how things have or haven’t changed in the past few months.
Shalini Sinha joins guest host Krishnendu Ray to discuss the influence that the pandemic has had on street food culture and its industry in Delhi.
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