The Hindu·3 min read·medium
The Hindu Lit For Life Unplugged: Discovering Kargil through food with Yash Saxena
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Sangita Rajan
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Author Yash Saxena explores the cultural disconnect between younger generations in Kargil and their traditional cuisine in the book 'Stories from a Kargili Kitchen'. The work serves as a lens to understand how food preserves memory and identity in changing communities.
On the way from Srinagar to Kargil, author and mountaineer Yash Saxena struck up a conversation with a group of youngsters from Kargil. Kargil, would soon become Yash’s base as they researched their book, Stories from a Kargili Kitchen, which then went on to be published by Penguin Books in January earlier this year.
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