India, Oct. 5 -- Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India where history lives not only in stone, but in simmering pots and the aroma of ghee. From Bhimbetka's caves to Ujjain's markets and Mandu's royal kitchens, food here is more than sustenance - it is memory, movement, and identity intertwined

Madhya Pradesh lies at India's core, a land where memory has always been carried not just in stories, but in landscapes, in rivers, and in long, patient fields. The Vindhya and Satpura ranges cut across its heart, the Narmada flows westward like a silver ribbon, and broad plateaus stretch outward into forests that once sheltered the earliest humans. Long before kingdoms and courts, before empires rose and fell, there were hunters and gatherers paintin...