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What's Not on the Plate? Rethinking Food Computing through Indigenous Indian Datasets
Pamir Gogoi, Neha Joshi, Ayushi Pandey, Deepthi Sudharsan, Saransh Kumar Gupta, Lipika Dey, Partha Pratim Das, Kalika Bali, Vivek Seshadri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16286

What's Not on the Plate? Rethinking Food Computing through Indigenous Indian Datasets
This paper presents a multimodal dataset of 1,000 indigenous recipes from remote regions of India, collected through a participatory model involving first-time digital workers from rural areas. The project covers ten endangered language communities in six states. Documented using a dedicated mobile app, the data set includes text, images, and audio, capturing traditional food practices along with their ecological and cultural contexts. This initiative addresses gaps in food computing, such as t…

A Glenmark Pharmaceuticals factory in central India was responsible for an outsized share of recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm American patients.
In a string of recalls, federal regulators had determined that more than 50 million potassium chloride extended-release capsules sold in the U.S. could be deadly.
Yet, federal drug inspectors at that point hadn’t set foot in the Madhya Pradesh factory for more than four years
Seven weeks after that s…

The FDA Is Cracking Down on an Indian Drugmaker Investigated by ProPublica Last Year
In a warning letter, the Food and Drug Administration said Glenmark Pharmaceuticals failed to properly investigate flaws with a generic drug that ProPublica found was linked to U.S. deaths.

Look, I love Indian food but I am not going to a placed called "AI Kitchen"...
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/08/07/indian-restaurant-planned-for-southwest-side/

Indian Restaurant Planned For Southwest Side
From fried chicken to butter chicken, Mo's will become AI Kitchen.

Temporally staggered cropping co-benefits beneficial insects and pest control globally
Adrija Datta (Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India), Subramanian Sankaranarayanan (Department of Biological Sciences,Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India), Udit Bhatia (Department of Computer Science,Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian …

Temporally staggered cropping co-benefits beneficial insects and pest control globally
Reconciling increasing food production with biodiversity conservation is critical yet challenging, particularly given global declines in beneficial insects driven by monoculture intensification. Intercropping, the simultaneous or sequential cultivation of multiple crops, has been proposed as a viable strategy to enhance beneficial insect services and suppress pests, yet global evidence regarding optimal spatiotemporal intercropping configurations remains fragmented. Here, we synthesize results …

Spent 5hrs cooking for #friends before leaving #Germany. Made #SouthIndian food they're unlikely to get in local #Indian restaurants: khaara baath, kesari baath, dose, chutney, potato-onion palya. 😋
Hadn't cooked that fare in 4 yrs but all came out well. More important, everyone had a good time. ☺️