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Climate Snake: Guardians

Yiannis Kranidiotis

Tremors Ground: Study of the Land

Elia Nurvista

Bite-sized Perusasion

Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), The Marg Foundation

Eat!

Ritaban Ghosh

Vulnerable Guardians

AKSHATA Seed Bank, Arunkumar HG

Fortify

Barney Pau

Manna: Epigenetics, Con ict and Intergenerational Trauma

Anna Dumitriu, Alex May

The Swamp that Feeds the City

Pratyasha Nath, Jenia Mukherjee, Ilana Boltvinik, Mohit Kumar Majhi, Ninad K

Forbidden Desire

Jade Armstrong

Kanaja: Interconnected Harvests

Dayananda Nagaraju

What Eat: Around the world in 80 Diets

Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio

What’s for Dinner?

Shreeya Agarwal, Kamakshi Saxena, Maah Space

Don't lick it all up

Rajyashri Goody

Museum of Edible Earth

masharu

Daggertooth

Martina O'Brien

Carbivore

Priya Mani, Vinay Venkatraman

Counting Calories

GROW

Agricultural land is shrinking. Debt and climate change have pushed many farmers into crisis. At the same time, food production is undergoing a technological revolution—hybrid crop varieties, Genetically Modi ed Organisms (GMO), lab grown food, faux meat. These developments are not just scienti c—they re ect global power shifts and market demands. What stories lie behind the crops we see in our elds?

BUY

Food is now just a click away. But this shift is not only from traditional markets to digital apps—it is also about new models like farm-to-table that shorten the journey between the eld and the plate. Trace the routes that food takes to reach us—from the livelihoods sustained by local markets to the demanding shifts of gig workers in food delivery.

COOK

From raw to cooked, food undergoes a spectacular transformation powered by energy, calories, and labour. Even as ready-to-eat meals ll our supermarket shelves, traditional recipes endure. Uncover the science, skills, and stories behind everyday cooking. What and how we cook may reveal more than just what is on our plate—it might reveal who we are.

EAT

While there is satiety, there is also hunger; if there is plenty, there is also scarcity. From caste restrictions to calorie gaps, our meals re ect deep economic and social divides. Screens shape cravings, hunger drives invention, and food becomes a measure of privilege. Compare global diets, play through simulated scarcity, and rethink what it means to eat well—or to eat at all.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FUNDING PARTNERS

GATES FOUNDATION

BRITISH COUNCIL

MACDERMID ALPHA ELECTRONICS SOLUTIONS

CONTENT PARTNERS

ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY PORTAL

MUSEUM OF ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY (MAP)

RACHEL CARSON CENTER

THE MARG FOUNDATION

DIGEST

Digestion is chemistry in motion: enzymes, bacteria, and acids transform food into fuel. Every bite you eat is broken down into energy—or stored as fat. Your gut is active, even noisy—those rumbles and gurgles are signs of a system at work. Follow the calorie as it travels through your body. Discover how sugar delivers energy with little nutrition, why carb-heavy meals disrupt your gut, and how microplastics sneak into the system.

WASTE

What we throw away still has life. In a world where surplus and scarcity exist side by side, waste should not always be the end. From city sewage owing through wetlands to leftovers reworked into food capsules, explore how waste might feed the future. Look closely: the system can still feed us.

TEAM

ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Gagandeep Kang, Microbiologist

Jayeeta Sharma, Historian

Nick Cullather, Historian

CURATORIAL ADVISOR

Marente van der Valk, Chef

CURATORIAL TEAM

Aaiushi Beniwal, Visual Practitioner

Ashank Chandapillai, Social Scientist

Danny Jeyaraj, Social Scientist

David Verghese, Architect

Devika P, Cultural Practitioner

Gayatri Manu, Writer

Harsha Jagadeesh, Biologist

Jagath V, Biochemist

Jahnavi Phalkey, Historian of Science

Malavika Sudhir, Educator

Shelwyn James S, Educator

Vasudha Malani, Writer

COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTATION

Anupama K T, Video Editor

Arjun S, Videographer

Sandhya Ramesh, Science Journalist

DESIGN

Anjal B, Designer

Anuhya Mahesh, Designer

Milena Stuck, Designer

Shweta Jangir, Designer

Shubhani Sharma, Researcher

RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL

Bindu B S, Translator

Ishaan Ghosh, Climate Researcher

Shambhawi Vikram, Social Scientist

Sarasi Ganguly, Writer

Vishwas Solagi, Translator

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Songs of the Foragers: Food, Ecology and Survival in Kerenadu Dipti Desai, Sorepalli Chandrashekhar, Shashiraj Haratale, Adithya Pradyumna, Sudha Nagavarapu and communities of Chintamani Munching Molluscs

Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

To Cook Bombay Duck In Various Ways?

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