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Dalitfoods.com: A Website For Pure Dalit Foods
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Dalitfoods.com: A Website For Pure Dalit Foods

When was the last time you visited a restaurant with all Dalit chefs? Or picked up a cookery book with authentic recipes of Dalit cuisines? Or even bought a masala unique to Dalit recipes? Possibly never. For that matter, what counts as ‘Dalit food’ to begin with, you may ask. Not very surprisingly, the omniscient Google would be of little help here. Type ‘Brahmin recipes’ on the search bar, and you’ll be deluged with options, each sounding more tempting than the other. But type ‘Dalit recipes’, and suddenly Google Baba is as blank as the rest of the country. It is this invisible character of Dalit food that Dalit entrepreneur and adviser to the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chandrabhan Prasad, is seeking to address through his new e-commerce venture dalitfoods.com whi...