The Zaikanama Oral Food History Archive gathers recorded conversations about food and everyday life. This has been an ongoing project for the past two years.

 

Participants speak about kitchens, family practices, and the small habits that surround cooking and eating. 

 

These conversations often move beyond food into memories of migration, scarcity, celebration, and domestic life. Gender and sometimes caste appear as quiet but constant layers within these recollections.

 

Some of these stories are deeply personal. For that reason the

 

archive remains mostly private.

Only short excerpts appear publicly while the larger collection continues to grow as part of the research.