Seema Chishti on love, food and the challenges of diversity
Journalist Seema Chishti's mother, Sumitra, wrote a cookbook so that she could pass down recipes from their rather unique kitchen - a kitchen which was shared by Sumitra, who was a Kshatriya Hindu from Mysore in Karnataka, and her husband Anees, a Syed Muslim from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh. Now, in her new book, Sumitra and Anees, Chishti includes recipes from her mother's cookbook and tells the story of her parents and their marriage. In this episode, she joins Sandip Roy to talk about the book, why she chose to write it, and the increasing demonization of interfaith relationships.