TASTE

Taste is a book like no other—part art object, part literary magazine
and entirely its own world. Featuring original essays by some of
India’s finest writers, the book includes Aatish Taseer on the new
style of living rooms and what it says about the nation, a rare
conversation between Vivek Shanbhag and Parul Sehgal on how
taste shapes the act of writing itself, and Srinath Perur’s glorious
meditation on Boney M. and their enduring Indian afterlife.
Designed with extraordinary flair by graphic designer Kriti Monga,
Taste explores what taste is, who decides it and how it reveals
itself—in our homes, our travels, our music, our books and our lives.
Printed in a strictly limited edition of 300 copies, this, the first of
an annual imprint, is not just a book, but a cultural classic.

Lakshmi Chaudhry’s career in journalism spans two decades
andcontinents, starting with her first job at Wired in the United
States. She is the co-founder of Firstpost, Broadsheet and Splainer.
She was previously the senior political writer at The Nation and has
received two Webbys for her work as editor on the Iraq war. Her
writing has appeared in the New York Times, Al Jazeera, Columbia
Journalism Review and Mint, among others. She is currently
the CEO of Splainer Media, which is sharply focused on the
territory of taste—mapped, curated and explained by humans at
a time when the machine reigns supreme. Its verticals include
the shopping recommendation platform Souk and weekend
magazine Advisory. All this while working on living the good life
in Bangalore.