Journalist, entrepreneur. Editor @ThePlateIndia a digital media platform focussed on Indian food and agriculture. Understanding India from farm to plate
Bengaluru, India
Joined February 2015
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Forget military industrial complex, first let's learn to get our onions from Nashik to rest of the country in time. We grow enough onions of the quality that South East Asia covets. But India makes its farmers lose all the time! Here's how. Watch! youtube.com/watch?v=hDMCih_1…
Watch: Every year onion prices in India go up this time of the year like clockwork. Is there no way to deal with it? youtube.com/watch?v=hDMCih_1…
Instead of talking about caste etc shouldn't people like Krish Ashok in Indian tech be solving problems of meat, seafood or onion supply chain? Considering onion is THE most important vegetable! youtu.be/hDMCih_1oTw?si=Nhm0…
Onion prices in some cities has crossed Rs80/kg. Every year the story repeats: prices rise start rising in Aug-Sept, farmers protest when prices collapse in Feb-March. I travel to Lasalgaon to understand the onion trap for a @thePlateIndia documentary youtube.com/watch?v=hDMCih_1…
All ok, but i hope @ncbn garu let's go of quackery like turning Andhra's agriculture full natural/organic and all! youtu.be/JC8o5Ztx2pE?si=Oj5t…
In a country blighted by mediocre administrators, the audacity of the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is somewhat refreshing. Even so, he may have bitten off more than he can chew economist.com/asia/2026/09/0…
A little trivia: the popular Marathi film and theatre actor Varsha Usgaonkar who played Uttara in the iconic Mahabharat TV serial is Dr Tosha Kurade's sister!
Sangam Kurade started a mushroom business in 1994. But in 2009 a flood wiped out everything. He had to start all over again. His wife Tosha helped him make an unlikely comeback as the Mushroom King of India with a turnover of Rs 200cr! My @theplateindia documentary link below
Sangam Kurade started a mushroom business in 1994. But in 2009 a flood wiped out everything. He had to start all over again. His wife Tosha helped him make an unlikely comeback as the Mushroom King of India with a turnover of Rs 200cr! My @theplateindia documentary link below
An appreciation I wrote a few years ago of @Vincentsjotting and the delightful Mylapore Times! newslaundry.com/2020/07/11/m…
Circulating a free newspaper is a challenge. Retaining the boys is bigger. @Mylapore_Times has managed it for 32 years. Every Saturday.
Sterophonic Sannata was way better that Dorothy's Muthumani. Pls don't drag the man into tribute territory
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You probably have seen this brand of mushrooms—Dr Kurade’s—and like me wondered why there’s a strange prefix to a brand name. Here, @trvivek tells you the story behind the brand:
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The future of farming may look less like a farm and more like a factory. I went inside India's largest mushroom operation in Goa and found something that combines agriculture and the efficiency of manufacturing. We call it Agropolis. Link to the @theplateindia documentary below
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How deeply inspiring!
Story of a Scientist turned Mushroom King of India from Goa. Another great piece by @thePlateIndia
He lost everything to a flood in 2009. Today he runs India's biggest mushroom business and has never spent a rupee on ads. Meet Dr Sangam Kurade
@drkurade, the mushroom king of India. My new documentary on a food scientist who became an unlikely entrepreneur. Link below.
The only recourse was to head to the press club or the closest watering hole with fellow tortured souls, down an old monk or three, listen, bitch, put an arm around the biggest victim of the day, and get back to the story!
