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Freelance photographer and food stylist

Bengaluru, India
Joined November 2010
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1 year
Summers in Europe are truly magical. Meet my Berlin kitchen at 9:45 PM.
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4 months
That two mins of sun in this super gloomy blr weather.
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9 months
Bride sidekick duties really are a thing. My best friend got married this weekend, and I sat next to her for seven hours, fed her dal chawal and chips while she got the most intricate mehendi I've seen 😍
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7 months
6 pm sunlight hitting the kitchen so well today ❤️
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1 year
I've just moved to Berlin for a while as an artist in residency. I'm living on top of a museum and this is my kitchen guys 😭❤️
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1 year
Back in Dehradun for a small time to take care of my mum, who in turn is taking care of her plants 😭 My mom loves her plants more than me. (Very valid though)
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11 months
Back from Korea and I brought the entire country back with me to Bangalore
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9 months
The best thing about Bangalore is the sunlight in my kitchen.
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6 months
The neighborhood is filled with Lychee trees everywhere. They're still in the process of getting ripe. This is May vs what they'll look by the end of June ❤️ cant wait!
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1 year
I'm documenting kitchens in Berlin and the city's history in relationship to its food and home kitchens. Meet this lovely kitchen from a couple who had been living in East Berlin their entire lives, saw the end of WW2 aswell as the wall being built and taken down. ❤️
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10 months
Mum bought a small chullah so we could fire up small quantities of food in the garden. We made maki ki roti and saag for lunch ❤️
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10 months
My brother lives in Germany and comes to Dehradun once a year, this time his birthday happened to be during the holidays, so my mum cooked up a chaat stall for him in the garden. Best birthday gift ever.
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1 year
Finally a sunny morning in the 'luru ❤️ (The plants & me are happy)
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6 months
Ghats of Lucknow 💙
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7 months
The only good thing about having a body clock at 6 am is that I catch the glorious warm sun ☀️
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1 year
A friend sent me sunflowers and it made my week 🌻
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1 year
There is something really nice about cooking lunches for friends on weekdays when the rest of the world is busy with their jobs.
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1 year
I could live off of making puff brekkies everyday. (Spinach garlic eggplant, béchamel and asparagus, cherry tomato basalmic and miso butter onions from left to right. )
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2 months
Nothing makes me happier than getting off at very random bus stops and soaking in the daily lives of people at 7 am. (📍Somewhere in north Karnataka with no network)
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1 year
I went to visit my Nani's house today and she was practicing how to write her signature before she goes to the bank next week. 🥺 ❤️
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5 months
Bought myself the cutest lunchbox because I want to start eating more home food at work. I made some kimbap, braised tofu, homemade kimchi and packed some cherries and mango.
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6 months
Nothing beats the sunlight back at home in Dehradun. ☀️
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1 year
I made a 1kg batch of kimchi and stored it in the fridge for my tenant before subletting my apartment to him. (Is there a best landlord award I can apply for)
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7 months
Sunsets at shivaji nagar
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1 year
I had subletted my apartment when I went to Germany, during the summer. Now that I'm back my tenant and his friends visited me for lunch today and cooked for me in my kitchen and told me about all the memories they'd made in my home for the past two months🥺❤️ so wholesome.
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4 months
5 years ago my friend Sakshi took me to Fresh Catch in Mysore, and I've come back every single year just to eat here since. The prawn ghee roast and mango fish curry is to die for😭
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1 year
I spent all of sunday buying every pretty thing at various flea markets in Berlin. I even got a bread slicer and I don't even have that much bread. Did I buy too much?? I think not 🫠
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5 months
Dehradun fruit markets >>>
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1 month
Woke up this morning missing Dehradun, my mom, her garden and thinking why I'd ever leave the mountains to live in Bangalore.
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10 months
I recently took a trip to the mountains, and got obsessed with lemons and the edible flora around me. I bought the lemons back home, made a lemon cake and decorated it with some edible flowers that were growing in my moms garden 🌸
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1 year
Back home after two months in Germany and I seemed to have bought all of Europe's flea markets back with me to Bangalore.
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9 months
Called my friend Medha home for lunch today because I've missed her and haven't met her in ages so I decided to go all out and make her a korean+chinese feast. I made eggplant in garlic sauce, sesame crusted tofu, kimchi + tofu dumplings, kimchi pancakes and stir fried bok choy
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2 months
Woke up too early in the morning and had way too much time to kill so I decided to roll out some dough and make some waterchestnut+ pork dumplings from scratch.
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7 months
I love shooting for @eatnaru , here are some recents 📸 (w Terrence Manne) for my favourite restaurant in Bangalore.
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6 months
Finally back home in Dehradun, after what seems like a very long time. My mom made me a custard jelly mango trifle because she still thinks I am that five year old who was obsessed with strawberry jelly. (I am still five, she is right)
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1 year
Meet Amanda's Berlin kitchen. A jazz singer and the purest soul I've met. She experiments with feminism and anti-discrimination in her music and made me the best fried plantain tracing her father's Nigerian routes. Look at the hot hair balloons hanging from the ceiling❤️
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3 months
Went to a friends baby shower over the weekend and made some pesto tomato/eggplant tarts. So good😭
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11 months
My project, Kütche-n is one of the most wholesome experiences I've had. I spent five weeks in Berlin, being fed by strangers learning about the city, its history and identity through what I know best: food. Drop by @GI_Bangalore 16-17 December for my showcase between 2-8 pm!
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1 year
I can't stop thinking about the people who live in these lovely houses right by the Mediterranean sea. Imagine opening your windows to these gorgeous views. - Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona 💙
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5 months
Thought it would be someone's birthday somewhere today. So I made a double baked chocolate cake
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5 months
I rolled out some fresh noodles today after a very long time and made some mee goreng🍜
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1 year
When my mom gave me a bottle of leftover oyster sauce seven years ago, I didn't know what to do with it. Youtube made me stumble into @maangchi recipes and I've been cooking korean food since. I finally made it to Seoul yesterday guys😭❤️
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Another Berlin Kitchen, I fell in love with. Uwe and his gf made me cake and a lovely egg and mustard dish. Look at those gorgeous tiles 😭❤️
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2 months
Monsoon in Gokarna, 2024
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1 year
Took me two weeks but I finally found the best croissant place in Berlin. 😍❤️
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2 months
I think my fav part of being an adult who lives alone and knows how to cook is that I can eat tea time snacks for lunch and not share it with anyone. (Rolled out and fried some baby aaloo samosa's. So cute they look🥺)
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1 year
Went to Tamil Nadu for the weekend and not sure how I'll live without drinking this with every single meal. Can we please get these in blr 🥺
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4 months
Bangalore weather is going to make my body composition 90 percent noodles. (This is soto ayam, an Indonesia chicken noodle soup)
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8 months
Went to HAL market, bought one slice of this lovely catla fish and made some raw mango fish curry 🐟🥭
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1 year
Uff, sometimes I suprise myself 🤤 Made a twice baked chocolate cake the other day for my sister in laws birthday. There is genuinely no such thing as too much chocolate❤️
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3 months
Made a visit today and absolutely obsessed.
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📍General Items, Ulsoor My friend is opening a new store in collaboration with Tiipoi, a design studio Two entities with great taste, I’m excited Expect to see just a lot of thoughtfully curated items ranging from apparel, stationary and all things lifestyle :’) More below
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J and I spent one hour and a half catching up on life while folding dumplings the other night and talking about our friends weird hinge dates. Female friendships >>
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Booked tickets to lola in 2 seconds just cuz I saw greenday written on the poster. My 16 year old self is cryin today. (I wore one black green day tshirt almost everyday to school for two years straight)
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1 year
We're back to the regular programming in my Bangalore kitchen. It's honestly noodle soup weather but made some ravioli with pesto ricotta and egg🍝☔
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1 year
My entire personality this summer has been hopping around europe and visiting flea markets. Hello, from Barcelona.
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Sitting by parks, rivers and eating fancy donuts kinda Thursday.
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1 year
My mum made a chocolate banana cake yesterday and whenever she makes something she always sends me multiple options on which picture to post for her Instagram followers. 🥺
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8 months
I love the sun in my house but it's getting unbearably hot in this city 😭 (Doesn't help that I live on the top floor)
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1 year
Meet Christine's lovely family that I documented as a part of my Kitchens in Berlin project. She even gave me a sourdough starter to take back to Bangalore. 🥺❤️ I'm looking for more people who will be willing to let me document them in their kitchen, please rt!
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Kinda having a crisis if I'm in Punjab or Blr?! 📍Bobby's Punjabi Dhaba, Nagasandra
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It's taken me a couple of months but I finally printed a 60 page zine of my experiences in Berlin of eating in various home kitchens. The city is filled with history, recipes and lovely people who shared their lives with me over a meal. Order zine here!
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1 year
Said goodbye to Berlin on a rainy day and took the train from Berlin to Stuttgart. It was cloudy but European landscapes are really something.
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1 year
I love baking with people. My hosts in Berlin made this lovely carrot cake which we then frosted and rolled out small carrots for. It's not Easter but it's the weekend and that counts for over indulging?
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6 months
Monday morning sabzi thela- postcard from Dehradun ❤️
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Candle stores in Barcelona are something else. Those small croissant candles, I wish they'd smell like them too🥺
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10 months
Picnic biryani's in the garden with fresh plucked lettuce and radish. Winter in Dehradun is my favourite thing on Earth.
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6 months
In lucknow for a couple of weeks to shoot a cookbook but mostly have spent the day eating. Cannot resist jalebi ❤️
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1 year
I bought 7kgs of litchis and peaches from Dehradun to Bangalore and threw an open fruit market party yesterday. My best friend who lives in new york wanted to co host so I printed out her gorgeous face so she could be there with us 🥺❤️ Pic courtesy: @atulpinheiro & Hemanth
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Saw the most unreal scenery of my entire life while trekking across the Bavarian Alps. Not sure how something like this could actually exist. 🥺
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Late 20's friendships include making each other breakfast at 8 am before heading off to work. There is so much comfort in making time for one another over fresh juice, watermelon, eggs ham and kimchi sandwiches. @makipatisserie @ali_taiyaba 🍳
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Ive been taking one hour trains everyday for the past three days from Barcelona, visiting small quaint Spanish towns and beaches, because the train journeys are the best I've ever seen! I can sit on this train and look over at the Mediterranean everyday of my life.
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Berlin so far has been making magical connections with strangers over food. I invited a Ig friend home that I've never met and cooked a galette and braised leeks for her, she baked me a cake in return. This is her admiring the sunset while chocolate cake is being baked 🥺❤️
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Earlier this year @VOGUEIndia had asked me what food means to me and how it defined my identity. You can read about it here! Pc: @atulpinheiro truly the bestt portrait photographer I know❤️
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Obsessed with the wine shop opposite my apartment. Even the billing counter is so cute with its checkered cloth and vase of flowers.
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Goodmorning from Korea🇰🇷🇰🇷
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8 months
Good morning from my neighbourhood and Bessie, the dog-short for Bescom because she lives near the bescom office
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1 year
It's becoming a ritual to post a tweet every Sunday about the flea markets here. I don't know how to resist spending all my money into this every week😭
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Markets in Korea are something else. Look at the produce and the vibrant colours. 🍊
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Y'all know I've turned 28 because I've started eating salads 😭😭 Rocket, roasted onions, oranges, walnut dressing 🥗
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1 year
Back to the food styling life and creating sets commercially after a good 2.5 month break. Feels so good🥺 (I live for fancy table set ups🌸)
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Got a box of some mad looking avocados from . @thipaiah_ so made some avocado, fried egg, chilli oil situation on top of some garlic miso sourdough. 🥑
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My favourite part about Dehradun is that I can walk into the neighbourhood farm and pluck and buy vegetables straight from the source. 🌽🌽
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I've packed literally 3 pants, and 7 shirts for two months in Europe because I'm going to be carrying all these babies back with me 🥺 (and ingredients of course)
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I'm really living my best nihari kulcha life🥺🧿
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9 months
Bought an onggi all the way from my Seoul trip just so I can make more kimchi 🥬
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Every year for my birthday, I choose a colour for the year and make myself a chocolate cake. This year's colour is cobalt blue with a light blue rainbow and pearl sprinkles on top. 28th birthday done right✨ 🍰 Pc: @atulpinheiro
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1 year
First breakfast made in my berlin kitchen. Basic baguette, cheese, ham salami, eggs, grilled tomatoes and some fresh English gooseberries.
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1 year
It's just such a stone fruit season in Europe, I couldn't resist and made a huge brioche tart with cherries on top. I couldn't finish it (problems of living alone) so I packed it for my friend who took it to her office ❤️ Some before and after baked pics:
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My best friend doesn't like cake so I made him a cinnamon roll cake. Actually, two giant cinnamon rolls stacked one on top of the other. He's not 4, he's 24. But he's just whiny, young and thinks 24 is old. (Cute)
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1 year
Visited a German painter friend yesterday who had painted some pasta on the walls of her apartment corridor. I got a little inspired today and made some myself for lunch
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2 years
Missing cooking at home, properly dreaming of these Gulab Jamuns. 🥲
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6 months
I've never really been a breakfast person but Lucknow is turning me into one. Samosa, jalebi, dahi and freshly plucked mulberries is such a weekend vibe ❤️
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10 months
Plucked off radish and mustard leaves from mums garden to make rajma chawal, sabsi and salad. Dehradun 8 degree sunny winter lunches is all I want in life ☀️
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I'm obsessed with knitting shops in Dehradun. Bought my self 1kg worth of chunky yarn to make myself a blanket for the winters. So many colours and too many choices!!
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It's stone fruit season in Dehradun. I'm going to be piling in KG's of these to take back to Bangalore. (100rs for 1.5kg peaches 😭) also, I made some upside down peach cake 🍰
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Every time I visit friends in Dehradun, my mom plucks out vegetables from the garden to give as gifts. (Lettuce bouquets are my favourite kind of gifts🥬)
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Had a fam trip for the first time since 2011 and took them to Coorg. My mom (like me) got so excited by all the flora, and took so many cuttings to take back to Dehradun 😭 (this could probably be the plot line to dhoom 4-nation wide plant heist)
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Thippasandra market and the last of the mango season 🥭
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1 year
Back home in Dehradun after almost a year. I've missed the plants, sunlight and food 🥺
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The world is so tiny, met my Bangalore neighbour in Berlin. He whipped me up the craziest meal in 20 mins with ingredients in my fridge. (Perks of being friends with the genius . @anuragarorra ) Fish cured in english gooseberry compote, coconut sugar sauce with coriander oil.
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