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#PhotoStory | What do Bengaluru's migrant workers cook and eat? Bengaluru’s working-class migrants - the factory workers manufacturing polythene covers or the construction workers building the city’s high rises - carry their culinary traditions to the city. On train rides traversing the Deccan plateau, they hold lentils, recipes, and memories. The capital required to prepare recipes is hinged upon the rates at the market and the state listed in the migrants’ ration cards. Conversations with migrants, researchers, and community organizers suggest that these recipes are not fixed abstractions; instead, they are complex entanglements of politics, society, economics, and culture, straddling rural heartlands and urban destinations. Read the full story by Niyati Shah and Anoushka Srinivas to know more: LINK IN BIO #themigrationstory #bengaluru #migrantworkers #publichealth #nutrition #localcuisine #food