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.

The Canadian Cricket Team is a post colonial, immigrant dream. And an embodiment of the Punjabi diaspora aesthetic across India and Pakistan.

Modi 3.0 is continuity atleast in Foreign Policy matters. Dr Jaishankar is back to steer the global agenda towards being the Vishwaguru. Heads of State from Bangladesh to Mauritius attend the swearing in ceremony.

6 former CM’s in the cabinet. Rajnath, Gadkari and Mota Bhai Amit ji all signal that all is the same again.

Vaishnav, Scindia and Puri are back in as technocrats.

Allies have their share with Lallan, Chirag, HDK and the TDP Gaaru having a spot on the table.

The South East Asian Library in KL is getting together in less than a year.

Having has an association in the region since 2007 through study and work in three universities, the region is hardly understood in New Delhi which I seek to shed light upon. Life gets accounted in the books we have not read in our bookshelf!

I have been one of few Indian hacks who have written on Singaporean affairs and the intellectual attention is rather limited so far.