Sharanya Deepak is a writer and editor from New Delhi, who has been covering Indian dining for Eater since 2019. She is also an editor at Vittles, and her work has appeared in Roads and Kingdoms, The Believer, and The Baffler, among others. She won the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2020 and was a fellow at One World Media and South Asia Speaks in 2022 and 2023.
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‘This Land Is Meant Only for Saffron. Without It, It Means Nothing.’
Saffron fueled Kashmir’s local economy and culture for centuries, but its days might be numbered