Zomato Archives

Zomato Can Guarantee Halal Meat, But it Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Guarantee the Religion of its Delivery Execs

Ensuring food is prepared according to your order is Zomato’s responsibility. Ensuring the delivery driver’s religion meets up with your regressive criteria for whom you will accept food from, is not their responsibility. Got it? Good.

Dushyant Shekhawat July 2, 2016

POV

One Pepperoni Pizza, With a Topping of Politics, Please

In an age where everything from sharing a hug on the metro to booking an Ola cab is political fodder, perhaps it was only a matter of time before paying for your Swiggy order would be fraught with similar tensions. Or is it already?

Kahini Iyer June 24, 2016

People

Delivery Boys, the Angels of the Age of Apps

For anyone struggling to survive, pay rent, work 12 hours, and flux toxins out of their body, food delivery boys are our mediums to nirvana. If the MCU had ever employed these delivery boys in the Avengers franchise, then they’d have found and stopped Thanos before his ETA.

Meghalee Mitra May 31, 2016

Grub

Hunger Games! In An Unhealthy Relationship With Food This Pandemic

Just like everyone else I was fed up of being cooped inside their houses, waiting on my hunches for the pandemic to end. Helplessness took over me. Food became the only focal point of my life that I could wield control over. That is, until it started wielding control over me.

Sahej Marwah April 27, 2016