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About me

Professional Summary

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Brief about Indrajit Lahiri 

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  • Hospitality management graduate and Economics Honors graduate from CU. He had worked  in the corporate world for more than a decade and started his own IT venture, by the name  Pickle Solutions Pvt. Ltd.  

  • Co-founder of Foodka- one of the most viewed Bengali food Youtube channel (with 336K+  subscribers) 

  • Holds position at the board of the renowned award winning NGO named Kolkata Society for Culture & Heritage (http://ksch.org.in/ )

  • Indrajit started a food blog named www.moha-mushkil.com, which currently has more than  350+ posts and is very active, even now 

  • Street photography enthusiast with 3 exhibitions done. He was also in the curation panel of  the first official Instagram offline photography exhibition, held in Kolkata 

  • Published author of two Bengali book of Food & culture, named Foodkahini and Aro FoodKahini

  •  Joshtalks speaker in 2020 

  • Ted TalkX speaker in 2022

  • Panelist at Apeejay Kolkata Lit Fest 2019 and 2022

  • Appeared in multiple TV shows, cookery shows and has done guest appearance in soap  operas 

  • Had his debut in the movie named Mrityur Rong Dhushor

  • Acted in one short film, as lead character, by the name “In The end” 

  • Panelist for the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsav on 23rd November 2019.

  • Jury member for The Week magazine’s May 2018 edition for Good Restaurants in Kolkata listing 

  • Assisted Chef Sanjeev Kapoor for his biryani trail for the eastern India in August 2018.. this was shot for his channel Food Food (https://youtu.be/Vv1x_AT5emY ) ∙ Assisted the famous Food Blogging duo Rocky and Mayur for their Kolkata chapter  in 2021 

  • Winner the award for Most Obsessive blogger at the TFBA2018 & best storytelling blog in 2019. 

  • Asked by the French Consulate Kolkata to take out his excellency Mr. Emmanuel Lenain, Ambassador French Embassy in India on a vegan food walk in Kolkata in December 2019. 

  • Core team members behind the Calcutta Culinary Heritage Awards 2019which was organized by INTACH. 

Official Brand influencer: 

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∙ Nikon India 

∙ Royal enfield India 

Paid brand collaborations: 

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∙ IndiaTourism  

∙ HIDCO 

∙ VIVO 

∙ MI 

∙ Peerless Hotels 

∙ Cadburys 

∙ Hafele India 

∙ Spencers 

∙ Royal Thai Consulate 

∙ The honorary Chinese Consulate 

… and many other 

Articles and media mentions: 

∙ Polka Cafe 

∙ Indiatimes 

∙ Outlook India 

∙ Outlook Traveller 

∙ Deccan chronicle 

∙ The week 

∙ Beacon Kolkata 

∙ WOT Web 

∙ Daily Star (Dhaka , Bangladesh) 

∙ Daily Observer (Dhaka,Bangladesh) 

… and many other 

 

Seminar experiences:

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  • ∙ I was a speaker at the seminar by the Honorary US Consulate Historical Society named “Burger Vs Samosa” in July 2018. 

  • ∙ I was a speaker at the talk show held by Hotel Peerless Inn in Hyderabad named “The Great Biryani Journey” which was graced by several famous food bloggers in August 2019. ∙ I was a speaker at the talk session at LalMatiUtsav- ARajarshiChatterjee Initiative, at Navi Mumbai in January 2020. 

  • ∙ I was a panellist at the Apeejay Bangla SahityaUtsob organized by Apeejay Groupheld at Kolkata in November 2019. 

  • ∙ I was a speaker at iLead Kolkata on “Influencer Marketing” in October 2019. ∙ I was invited as a special guest at the award ceremony for WT Pujo’r Shera Restaurant Awards at Ethnotel Kolkata in September 2019. 

  • ∙ I along with Team Foodka attended the Facebook Creator’s Day event at Mumbai in September 2019.. 

  • ∙ I was a panelist at the pre-ABSU fest 2019 held at Oxford bookstore Kolkata, on “Food in Bengali literature.” 

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