Two Brothers India Farms launches Kranti Cookbook AI to champion culinary decolonisation

Two Brothers India Farms has launched Kranti Cookbook, a campaign and participatory AI platform created to rediscover, document and celebrate India’s culinary heritage.

Developed by Glassbox, a Komerz company, the initiative directly challenges the lasting impact of colonial food engineering :  the colonial-era economic policies that prioritised taxation, exports and commercial crops and influenced how food was cultivated, processed and consumed in India.

The campaign launched with a provocative film that frames the kitchen as India’s last unliberated territory, asking: “India got its freedom. But did our food?”

The campaign introduced Kranti Cookbook AI, a living platform that allows anyone to explore pre-colonial cuisine and decolonise their everyday cooking. Trained on classical Indian culinary books such as the Pakadarpana, Manasollasa and more, the AI deconstructs how specific dishes were altered by colonial trade policies and reconstructs their original, pre-colonial preparations.

Explore Kranti Cookbook AI and contribute a recipe at www.kranticookbook.com

And now, Kranti Cookbook is inviting people across India to share the recipes preserved within their families and communities. Users can contribute a grandmother’s recipe, a forgotten regional dish, an indigenous ingredient or even a traditional cooking technique. The ambition is to create a living repository shaped by people across India, and eventually curate selected contributions into a physical Kranti Cookbook.

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“Colonial food policy systematically broke our relationship with native crops, replacing diverse millets and cold-pressed oils with industrial starches and cash commodities” said Satyajit Hange, Co-Founding Farmer, Two Brothers India Farms. “Kranti Cookbook is about reclaiming the plate. It is a collective effort to unearth the agricultural and culinary knowledge and become a living repository of Indian food heritage.”

“We didn’t want to create an ad campaign that merely observed the problem. Kranti Cookbook turns every recipe search, ingredient query, and family nuska into an active tool for cultural decolonisation.” said Vishal Nicholas, Chief Creative Officer, Glassbox.

Beyond documenting recipes, the initiative seeks to bring back food sovereignty through community contributions, collaborations with food historians, chefs, farmers and cultural chroniclers. Its long-term vision is to become a collective archive of India’s food memory and contribute to a wider culinary heritage revival.