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Dr Tarana Husain Khan is a writer and cultural historian. Her writings on the oral history, culture and the famed cuisine of the erstwhile princely state of Rampur have appeared in prominent publications such as Al Jazeera, Eaten Magazine, Scroll.in and in the anthologies Desi Delicacies (Pan Macmillan, India) and Dastarkhwan: Food Writing from South Asia and Diaspora (Beacon Books, UK). She is the author of historical fiction The Begum and the Dastan, which won the Kalinga Literary Award for fiction and was shortlisted for Women Writer’s Award by She The People and longlisted for AutHER Award.
She is currently working on a Research Fellowship at the University of Sheffield for an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project ‘Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India’.
