A migrant worker and his children sleep at a bus station as they wait to return to their village, after Delhi government ordered a six-day lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ghaziabad on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, April 20, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
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Faced with the ongoing threat from COVID-19, young pupils in the country, which is home to the world s second-largest school system after China, have switched to e-learning.
Most Indian kitchens, even those with the freshest of ingredients, tell a rather rotten story.
The Great Indian Kitchen, a Malayalam film, set in an upper-middle-class traditional Kerala home, tells this with a camera that rarely ever leaves the kitchen.
It’s a visual story, no hard-hitting dialogues or monologues that deliver the trauma of a woman as she transitions from a dewy-eyed new bride to a haggard woman of the house, whose primary responsibility is to churn out freshly-cooked meals three times a day.
Eat, rinse, repeat
The camera is relentless in capturing every detail of the back-breaking work that goes into making the ‘simple’ everyday Kerala recipes. Rinsing, peeling, chopping, cooking. Coconut that needs to be ground by hand on a stone and rice that needs to be cooked on wood fire. Fish bought by the father-in-law, meticulously cleaned, cut and cooked into a curry by the eager-to-please daughter-in-law. Warm dosas, which are served one by one to the men of the
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