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Awanthi Vardaraj

Awanthi Vardaraj lives and writes in the port city of Chennai, in the south of India, where she runs her own small artisanal bakery and keeps a garden full of jasmine plants and herbs she still cannot name. As a freelance writer, she mostly focuses on food, feminism, travel, mental health, and poverty, and nurtures a deep love for the Oxford comma and the semicolon.

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