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Shrabonti Bagchi

Ex-Mint staffer

Shrabonti wrote primarily for Mint Lounge on food, culture, business and society. She has been a features writer/editor for over 20 years with interests in the intersections between technology and society/culture.

ARTICLES BY SHRABONTI BAGCHI

The book’s protagonist is in Taiwan to learn Mandarin Chinese. (iStockPhoto)

‘Taipei Story’ by Rebecca F Kuang: A bittersweet love letter to Mandarin Chinese

4 min read . 03 Oct 2026

Pieter Lastman’s ‘Jonah and the Whale’. (Google Art Project)

How Tashan Mehta's speculative fiction remains rooted in the Parsi experience

7 min read . 23 Aug 2026

Small plates at The Bombay Canteen; and (right) steamed Thai buns at FOMO, Bengaluru.

Why are small plates so expensive?

6 min read . 03 Jul 2026

Bert Mueller is the co-founder and CEO of California Burritos. (Illustration by Priya Kuriyan)

California Burrito CEO Bert Mueller on setting up a Mexican food chain in India

9 min read . 11 Apr 2026

Writers have to work harder to avoid the danger of sounding like AI (iStock)

Don’t worry, a human wrote this

2 min read . 01 Mar 2026

An illustration from ‘Agents of Ishq’ (AOI)

Book review: Unfiltered stories of desire from the heart of India

4 min read . 22 Feb 2026

The Tree Tomato Custard at Nila

This Bengaluru restaurant will change its menu every quarter

2 min read . 21 Feb 2026

The Canteen Cocktail Book 2025 from The Bombay Canteen

From functional list to the main character of meals, menu design has evolved

6 min read . 13 Feb 2026

Boltu the anthropomorphised monkey from 'Bandar Apna Dost' (Photo courtesy Surajit Karmakar)

From Hulku to Boltu: Inside India's AI slop economy

10 min read . 30 Jan 2026

The Old Fashioned is being reimagined in interesting ways (iStock)

How local innovation drives global cocktail culture

3 min read . 24 Jan 2026

Arvind Dadu, managing director, Anand Sweets and Savouries (Illustration by Priya Kuriyan)

Arvind Dadu of Anand Sweets on building a modern mithai brand

8 min read . 17 Jan 2026

A row of server racks at a data centre (Pexels)

AI empires are more powerful than many nation-states, says author Karen Hao

8 min read . 13 Dec 2025

Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka in Pluribus on Apple TV+ (IMDb)

How Pluribus nails AI’s great flattening effect

2 min read . 06 Dec 2025

'Chakhna' and quarter bottles at Quarter House, Bengaluru

Unfussy local bars make a comeback in Bengaluru

3 min read . 30 Nov 2025

Pal brings to life women living in a country that feels both optimistic and hopeless. (iStock)

Book review: Millennial women navigate love and politics in Mumbai

4 min read . 30 Nov 2025

Textile waste entrepreneur Kumudha (centre) at a dry waste collection centre (Photo courtesy CAIF)

Inside Bengaluru’s quiet recycling revolution

6 min read . 30 Nov 2025

AI products have started using chat history to personalise and display ads (iStock)

Ads are coming to your AI chatbot—what this means for you

2 min read . 08 Nov 2025

The Giant Swing (istock)

Walking through Bangkok’s everyday theatres

4 min read . 02 Nov 2025

A theatre cannot be a theatre anymore but has to level-up as a restaurant, a play area, maybe a shopping arcade next (iStock)

Are movie theaters losing their magic to dining distractions?

2 min read . 11 Oct 2025

Climate anxiety is a big part of SFF writing today (iStock)

The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF: Speculative fiction rooted, yet free

3 min read . 20 Sept 2025