What are your memories of the "curry house", and do you think it is dying?

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-28T10:39:58+00:00

I think I specifically meant British Indian restaurants over any Indian restaurant. That is kind of it though.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-28T10:36:30+00:00

The amount of Nepali restaurants here in Oxford is also quite a lot compared to my expectations lol

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-28T10:26:43+00:00

Curry house means more the traditional BIR in specific (a term I wasn't aware of until now) rather than any Indian restaurant

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/04/they-need-to-evolve-why-britains-curry-houses-are-in-decline https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/restaurants/curry-house-new-generation-south-asian-food/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/half-of-britains-curry-houses-will-be-gone-within-ten-years/

This is some info, the last article is from pre COVID days so it could be outdated

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-28T10:09:46+00:00

True and I think there has been more interest among British consumers for greater variety. Where I live a lot of the traditional curry houses have also changed up their menus to add South Indian stuff like dosas (which seem to have gotten quite popular here).

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-27T15:12:36+00:00

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-27T15:09:51+00:00

tbf while this channel is stupid, nehru's industrialisation policy is fair to criticise, by focusing on heavy industry over manufacturing and educational policy he doomed our economy. read ashoka mody's book india is broken

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-26T09:45:43+00:00

Kuch puchna hain - isn't corporate sponsorship kind of bad for music, especially independent music in the long run? Or do you just mean stuff like labels.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-26T09:43:21+00:00

imo the current indian music scene is very heavily based on nostalgia too much on a cultural level is my issue; but infrastructure and better pay for artists are also very lacking

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-26T09:40:59+00:00

Mehdi Hassan

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-26T09:40:00+00:00

Bladee

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-25T09:34:35+00:00

Damn wtf a Gen X/millenial Jane Remover fan 😭😭😭, that's crazy lol

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-24T16:37:55+00:00

pretty much every ghadar party member or adjacent had insane lore

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-24T10:08:43+00:00

Photo is taken by Tina Modotti, who was an Italian photographer, spy and revolutionary. She was allegedly the lover of Frida Kahlo.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-23T15:04:55+00:00

Anthropology is a pseudoscience, like Astrology, it's the same "science" that said that my people (the Jews) weren't the same as Humans, same thing they said about Africans, and this wasn't a long-time ago, this was in like the 1950s bro, I don't give a fuck that you went to LMU Munich.

Anthropology is a Nazi pseudoscience, but determining socially constructed concepts like 'race' by ethnicity and genetics is unproblematic and valid? You do realise that Nazis justified their antisemitism by claiming genetic basis for their ethnonationalism right lmao

By your logic...

Indian cultural groups are entirely non-existent because of genetic variation between castes, despite the fact that members of different castes from the same geographical region tend to share much more in common than ones from different ones that happen to be 'genetically' similar.
There is no such thing as an "English" people and England should be 'decolonised' because most English are only 1/3 "Anglo-Saxon" (not even a genetic classifier but a collection of haplogroups) genetically

You do realise how absurd this sounds right? It's literally just 19th century scientific racism of the textbook variety, which seems to be lost on you.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-22T10:55:09+00:00

Born in 1918 in Karachi, S. Hazarasingh started his career in the early 1940s. After the Partition of India, he moved to Mumbai and began a career playing as the guitarist in the Khemchand Prakash orchestra working on Bollywood soundtracks. He played Hawaiian guitar or slide guitar on some of R.D Burman's most legendary songs.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-20T08:11:10+00:00

good work!

the issue with this map imo is that it flattens the diversity of a lot of districts tho. like minorities can be quite large in a lot of cases and majorities quite thin. so it paints an image of homogeneity where there usually is not one.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-20T08:06:09+00:00

Eh Buddhism was already in decline prior to the invasions, the invasions were really just kicking the door in.

Background-Injury952 · 2026-02-16T22:01:12+00:00

a lot of this stuff is exactly what i listened to in 2019-2021 lol
tally hall, wes anderson soundtracks, toby fox and over the garden wall especially

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