Sumana Kasturi is an independent writer and researcher based in Mumbai. Her research interests include children’s media, feminist media studies, digital cultures, and food studies. She is the author of the book Gender, Citizenship and Identity in the India Blogosphere, where among other things, she studied food blogs written by Indian women. She is also the co-editor (along with Dr. Usha Raman) of the book Childscape, Media Scape: Children and Media in India. Her interest in culinary histories is long-standing and she is currently researching and putting together a family archive of traditional recipes.