Food blogger sparks debate with call to stop using word curry ‘popularised by lazy white people’
A South Asian blogger has called on people to stop using the word “curry” to describe Indian dishes over claims it is rooted in British colonialism.
Chaheti Bansal, a 27-year-old food blogger, posted a recipe on Instagram in June and called on people to “cancel the word ‘curry.’”
In the clip, which has been viewed over 3 million times, she says the term has, for quite some time, been misused by “white people” to depict any dish made in India.
“There’s a saying that the food in India changes every 100km and yet we’re still using this umbrella term popularised