ABOUT Finely Chopped | Kalyan Karmakar | Mumbai

 

Kalyan Karmakar is one of India’s earliest food and travel bloggers and has authored the book, The Travelling Belly, published by Hachette India. He is a freelance food writer and consultant who had worked in market research in the early part of his career.

His blog, www.finelychopped.net has won the FBAI 2017 Best General Food Blog award and he has won the Godrej Protect Power Blogger of the Year award in 2017 and the best Indian Food Blogger Award
2017 in the BHG and Social Samosa Awards. He was also the winner of the FBAI best food and travel and best general blog winner in 20165, 2016.

He has been published in leading publications such as Femina, Indian Express, Mumbai Mirror, The Hindu, The Week and BBC Good Food India and in websites such as NDTV Food and ScoopWhoop and has been featured in The Times of India, HT, The Hindu, Mumbai Mirror, Vogue and Scroll. He is a columnist for the Indian Express, the Times of India Blogs and for NDTV Food.

Radio: Radio on Demand on 94.3 Radio One FM every Wednesday at 1 pm on Foodie Chat With Kalyan with Annie Arakkal

He is part of the jury for the of the Living Foodz Epicurean Guild Awards, Conde Nast Top 50 Restaurant Awards and the Foodie Hub global awards as the Mumbai representative. He was a lead panel speaker at the Indian Restaurant Congress 2017 and The Tasting India Symposium.

He was the official blogging partner for The Tasting India Symposium and has partnered Yes Bank and Sahapedia and Incredible India in the India Heritage Month 2018 and has conducted food walks for the same.

He has taken sessions on food trends as a guest lecturer at the National Police Academy for the 2017 IPS batch, Jagruti Yatra 2017-18 and the Food Solutions global team of Unilever and has been part of the panel of the Godrej Food Trends Report 2018 and the Kelloggs Flavour Conference 2018.

Link to published work/ articles/ columns:

Print:
Femina Blogs
Indian Express

Digital:

NDTV Food
Times of India blogs
Scoopwhoop