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Devi Poojari
While the pandemic hasn’t been kind to most people, it sure did awaken the curiosity of many who were willing to explore their culinary prowess in the kitchen. That said, for individuals like Saransh Goila of the Goila Butter Chicken fame, this forced downtime enabled him to reignite his passion for cooking through an idea that was originally meant to be a 13-part travel show about street food that the diverse geography of India had to offer. “I wanted to undertake this journey for a while now. On Independence Day, as India celebrated 74 years of freedom, I decided to do a digitised version of this concept,” he says as we began conversing about the increasing level of interest that has been generated around Indian regional cooking.