Famous stars Mindy Kaling and Padma Lakshmi objected when one of the media personalities offered a couple of remarks on Indian food in another post dispersed by an overall daily. The media personality talked lengths about Indian food and ‘the principle ethnic cuisine in the world frantically subject to one spice’ in his article. Reacting to the article, Meena Harris, lawyer, and niece of US Vice President Kamala Harris, tweeted, “In regards to, in a real sense nothing, name your ONE most cherished Indian spice. I’ll go first: asafoetida.”
Followed by Meena were Mindy and Pama Lakshmi who shared their veneration for Indian spices. Offering an explanation to her tweet, Mindy Kaling said, “I love fenugreek! There are such incalculable spices in this great cuisine!” She furthermore tweeted, “You could do without a cuisine? Fine. In any case, it’s so abnormal to feel insubordinately happy loathing a cuisine. You can loathe something also.”
Padma Lakshmi in a movement of tweets said, “What in the white claptrap is this?” She added, “Is this really the sort of colonizer ‘hot take’ the @washingtonpost needs to appropriate in 2021-contemptuously depicting curry as ‘one spice’ and that the aggregate of India’s cuisine relies upon it?” She also shared a screenshot of the article that read, “Indian food. The Indian subcontinent has immeasurably improved the world, giving us chess, secures, the mathematical thought of nothing, cleaning agent, progressed serene political resistance, Chutes and Ladders, the Fibonacci sequence, rock treats, cascade operation, cashmere, USB ports … besides, the primary ethnic cuisine in the world frantically subject to one spice. If you like Indian curries, whoopee, you like Indian food! If you think Indian curries taste like something that could knock a vulture off a meat truck, you could do without Indian food.”
Beside venting out on Twitter, Padma in like manner took to Instagram and shared a broad note reacting to the piece. A piece of her note read, “There is actually no necessity for something like this to be circulated in 2021 (or ever). It’s racist and impassive, most ideal situation. My issue isn’t this current person’s performative contrarianism (in spite of the way that it is bleak) or that he didn’t partake in the Indian cuisines he’s tasted.”