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Tony aka Anthony Bourdain for taking me (and others like me) to parts unknown, no reservations, episode after episode 🙇🏻‍♀️ in the most honest, unabashed, wholesome way, 40 minute long run time allowed ❣️Ever so grateful, Happy Birthday to you!

In lockdown, your show helped me and my loved ones travel far and wide from the confines of our home, your opening-closing notes and observations were philosophy on speed, and your very raw and real documentation, a reservoir of lessons. Revisiting them on ✨as i shall continue to do time and again:)

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

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To the original creators who have been influencing us, without the need for recognition, without the need for a blue tick of approval, selflessly, time-over-time, millennia over millennia, thank you for all of you.

An ode to mine, all-raw and all-real, circa 2015 🙂


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All About My Mother: To Maa, With Love By Pratishtha Dobhal Dear Maa, I’m sending this to you on watsapp, although I know you are upset with Zuckerberg for sending you payment plan reminders and temporarily blocking you. B…

Not your typical love poems ⭕️

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Ooh: Let’s chase sunsets over these stupid oceans of despair?

Aah: Can’t chase today.

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🧠 💡 Ageing. What’s That? 🧬
Mind-blowing Things We Learnt From The Biology Of Slowing And Reversing Ageing Podcast, By Andrew Huberman With Dr David Sinclair |

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Tell us what you learnt after reading and watching the podcast 💛

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Mind-blowing Things We Learnt From The Biology Of Slowing And Reversing Ageing Podcast, By Andrew Huberman With Dr David Sinclair | #OKPodcastBreakdown You can live longer than you imagine today. Find out like we did, with Andrew Huberman and Dr David Sinclair only on Orange Kettle zine

What the WORDLE is the world 🌍 obsessed with 🎞👇🏽

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📖 Edge Of Summer | 2025:

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📔 ♾ Dispatch from Delhi on Day 648 of living in the time of Covid-19/ Omicron/ Demicron, Merry Christmas NFT, Lickable TV, and Monday Test daze every effing day, while manifesting dreams, joy, and healing in 2022 and beyond ❣️

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Dispatch from Delhi on Day 648 of living in the time of Covid-19/ Omicron/ Demicron, Merry Christmas NFT, Lickable TV, and Monday Test daze every effing day, while manifesting dreams, joy, and healing in 2022 and beyond| #DiaryOfAGirl Everyday of this year has felt like one giant Monday Test.For those not familiar with this testing daze, I and my fellow classmates were put through the entirety of our school life, here is the bac…

🖊 Year end, all-time lessons 📖 〰️Things I Learnt From Neena Gupta’s Sach Kahun Toh 🧲❣️

Fangirling since Saans daze. Thank you 🙏🏽 ♥️ Neena Gupta Have a read and tell us if you agree!



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✍🏽 Dispatch from Delhi on Day 551 of living in the time of Covid-19, nightcrawler bird of prey in broad daylight, a quiet renaissance and revolution | 💕
It’s been a while since the last dispatch.

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18th Sep, 10:45 pm

Four months have gone by since the last time I wrote the dispatch diary, yet, the wounds haven’t fully healed. In some places the gash has split the insides wide open, and you can feel the imminent threat of surface tension. While at other times, you immerse yourself in the healing, letting the energy flow in places you want it to thrive, mindfully replacing anxiety with sincere living. Halfway into September, closer to year-end cheer and reflections, I know I have let time in its ever-present continuum, lapse into memories I didn’t want to put in writing, because, I simply couldn’t bring myself to echoing how I was feeling.
At the peak of the second wave, it was clear that grief had touched upon everyone I knew in some form or the other, in varying degrees, and we were all scrambling for safety nets.

19th Sep, 9:51 am

I slept soon after keying in the feelings purge, with most of the morning spent in catching up on work deadlines, and an eventful dose of morning saga.

I have three balconies in the house. The first thing I usually do after waking up is open the doors to the front-facing ones of the apartment, and leave the one at the back of the house for later, when Kamala (my help) arrives. Not much of a view, it’s a functional one and is treated like it.
She arrived and went to the one at the back where we store our cleaning utilities, and shouted…

“Bhabhi, there is something at the back!” – Kamala

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Dispatch from Delhi on Day 551 of living in the time of Covid-19, nightcrawler bird of prey in broad daylight, a quiet renaissance and revolution | #DiaryOfAGirl 18th Sep, 10:45 pm Four months have gone by since the last time I wrote the dispatch diary, yet, the wounds haven’t fully healed. In some places the gash has split the insides wide open, and you ca…

Remembering the true king of Comedy 🎭 Norm MacDonald ♥️ Gone too soon.

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✍🏽 Things I Learnt Travelling To Parts Unknown, No Reservation In Lockdown 2020-2021, Without Watching Roadrunner |

Once upon a time, cable TV and TLC brought home a tall, lean, cheeky conversationalist with grey hair, pierced ear and tattoos, who travelled around the world in a way no one seemed to be doing at the time—taking you beyond city lights and juggernaut of ideas you held close to your heart about people and places you had never met, or seen. Writer, storyteller, director, chef, journalist, ethnographer, philosopher, philanthropist, kind-of anarchist, as ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations’ unfolded on Television, way, way back on Travel and Living Channel in 2010, I was hooked, lock, stock, and too-many-travel barrels deep into Tony’s World.

With ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, (‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations’ [aired from 2005-2012] in a big-budget CNN avatar), spread over 10 seasons, from 2013- 2018, interspersed generously with music that was telling, visuals that were laboriously filmed and craftily articulated on screen, Anthony Bourdain continually dismantled the distant and aspirational romanticism with travelling to foreign lands. He democratised it, succinctly editing each episode into 41 minutes of incredible heart, soul, politics, society, culture, and hyper localism for the tube.

He was unfiltered and unabashed, journaling his tryst with a vulnerability, that made him far more relatable, than any social media influencer, worth their follower currency. Bourdain never tip-toed around polarising representations of local customs he was a part of, travelling around the world, allowing the lens and his observations to take centre stage. The more you watched, the more you learned. Through the universal language of food, he broke down limiting notions of origins. He made it simple to understand the cardinal rule of humanity: Deep down, we were all, pretty much the same.
That sentiment stayed with me, even at the time of his death, despite the tragedy it was interlaced with. Heartbroken, angry, disappointed, torn, a mixed bag of emotions, up until then, I imagined him to be kind-of-invincible.
Over the years I made my way back to the shows sparingly. Then, 2020 happened. And everything changed. Covid and lockdowns, forced us to return to our roots, in one way or another.
Resigned to a year of insulated living, I continually re-engaged, whole-heartedly, and mind-fully, with Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, putting aside ‘Tony Travel Hour’ to break the monotony of travelling, within the confines of my own home.
Inspiring, kind, and considerate, watching ‘Parts Unknown, No Reservation’, true Bourdain style meant celebrating people, culture, and food, from around the world, without a bite of prejudice or a pinch of judgement.

By his own admission, it wasn’t until his mid-40s, that Tony tasted commercial success. His love of food, however, kindled at an early age, when he tried his first oyster on a fisherman’s boat in France, on a family vacation. After graduating from ‘The Culinary Institute of America’ in 1978, he went on to run various restaurant kitchens in New York City, with his stint as executive chef at Brassiere Les Halles, based in Manhattan, being his longest. While working the kitchens, he started sending in unsolicited work for publication in the mid-1980s. Between C & D (a literary magazine), published his article on a chef trying to purchase he**in in the Lower East Side.
At 17, he had moved from his childhood home in New Jersey to the seaside town of Provincetown. In the 2014 episode, Massachusetts (Season 4, Episode 7, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown), where Bourdain used his own experiences to talk about the opioid epidemic searing through Western Massachusetts and small towns, across America, he recounts, “It was here, all the way up here, at the tip of Cape Cod, Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the pilgrims first landed, and it was where I first landed. 1972, I washed into town with a headful of orange sunshine and a few friends. Provincetown, a wonderland of tolerance, had a long-time tradition of accepting artists, writers, the badly behaved, the gay, the different—it was paradise.” As the episode rolls out, he says, “I left Provincetown with restaurant experience, a suntan, and an ever-deepening relationship with recreational drugs.”

His first book, a culinary mystery, Bone In The Throat, was published in 1995. Although, it wasn’t until 1999 when his piece, ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’, which he sent to The New Yorker on the insistence of his mother (a Times copy editor), bagged him a book deal (Kitchen Confidential, Adventures In The Culinary Underbelly, published in 2000), sn*******ng into a successful career as an intrepid traveller, hosting a travel show, fuelled by his curiosity for people and places. A writer and storyteller, Bourdain was multifaceted and inherently multicultural, as evident in the quotable quotes, every episode that has ever come out is littered with. At the core, he was a raconteur who battled personal demons when the credits rolled out, and left us awestruck by what he brought to our screens—precious footage that documented ‘Us’ in an ever-changing world.

And how quickly has the world transformed itself since the episodes were filmed? Too menacingly to keep up with it!
Beirut, back then, was not spiralling into economic collapse, Myanmar wasn’t crippled by Covid-19 and military coup, Taliban hadn’t emerged as a potential ally for Iran, in its effort to allegedly revive its cash-strapped economy. Even though you could sense the weight of the undercurrents, impending doom hadn’t been replaced by doomsday.

Timeless, Tony will always be revered for earnestly putting his heart out, in each episode he filmed, allowing for people and places to direct themselves and find representation as they rode his thought train. It’s been three years since his death, but it doesn’t feel like he ever left. Perhaps, he’s hanging around in spirit, cigarette in hand, rolling his eyes at Morgan Neville for relying on AI, and not trusting his voice enough, or maybe, he is finally at ease at Borneo (you will get the context further into the read), unfettered by all the noise, or even better, he’s finally done with being a roadrunner, and instead, enjoys visiting his loved ones, guiding them in the afterlife.

As it should, when you have spent the better half of a pandemic year, swimming against the tide in a bizarro new millennium, thankful for ‘Tony-Travel-Hour’, because it’s kept you hopeful and sane, you must relive the experience. As a student of life’s unpredictable, unravelling, in its many diabolical and exquisite forms, I know, like me, the people who he met, and the places he visited, will look a lot less like they are now. Yet, one thing is certain, the 250 episodes filmed over 13 years (106 episodes of Parts Unknown and 144 episodes of No Reservations) will continue to stay relevant, as it shall find a new legion of fans, who are acutely aware, of the studious documentation of our histories and living memories.

Sum of parts, here are the things I learnt travelling to parts unknown, no reservations, in lockdown 2020-2021, because of Tony.
Thank you.
I’ll keep you posted on my visitations from my end of the world!
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