Whether its is the omission of non-vegetarian items from a Harappan meal at a museum or misleading claims around consumption of eggs as one of the causes of Covid-19, repeated attempts to force fit the country’s diverse culinary traditions into “all-vegetarian” narrative have earned the ire of historians The past couple of months have seen several controversies erupt over food—with biryani becoming politicized in the run-up to the recent Delhi elections to the sudden omission of non-veg dishes from a Harappan meal at the National Museum in the Capital.
And recently, non-vegetarian food was in the eye of the storm once again when messages started doing the rounds on social media that consumption of chicken and eggs leads to covid-19, a