As I write on Migrant Foodscapes in the Indian Ocean for the past few years, it’s fascinating how restaurant workers have worked across the region, in the same places as one has been. Mr. Ganesan from Saravana Bhavan Petaling Jaya has served in Oman in particular Sohar and in Muscat – the Al Khuwair outlet next door to which I grew up and the Ruwi outlet. I was probably eating around the same time as he was working in the year 2017.

An Indian Diaspora space where is configured by restaurant chains such as Saravana Bhavan, where the taste of the set meal is exactly the same across the world.

One does necessarily not need a grant or a scholarship to work in the areas one wants to write as a researcher.