I am equally excited and grateful for my latest publication in The Monsoon- Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim published by the Africa Institute, Sharjah and Duke University Press.

The paper focuses on conceptualising the notion of subaltern foodscapes, across Muscat, Dubai and Singapore. Food places such as the Karak shop, the Mamak/Kopitiam and the chayya kada are spaces of care, everyday diaspora politics and cultural archives.

In Gratitude to Professor Crispin Bates for the esteemed opportunity, and the Dina Odeh for the generous editorial support.

The journey from fieldwork to writing to the workshop to the publication took a while, but it is a precious experience into the process of academic publication.

Sharing intellectual real estate with the best of Indian Ocean Tarikh and Ethnography such as Professor Uday Chandra and Rukmini, is a more than an honour for a peripheral academic at best.

As a second generation migrant, it is a calling to write our stories in our polyphonic ways in Bangla, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati and Arabic, which I will whether there is a platform available or not.

Shukran Jazeelan in Omani Arabic!

AI is erasing the social escalator which was IT in India over the past 45 years. The effect on the middle classes is massive, moving many to the gig economy.

A jobless era is awaiting many, as the job in effect becomes a subscription.