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It's my Dharma to not prohibit people from eating what they want: Pradyot Bikram Manikya DebBarma

At the India Today Conclave East 2017, Rakhi Dasgupta, Kewpie's owner, Pradyot Bikram Manikya DebBarma, Working President, Tripura Congress, actor and painter Moubani Sorcar, bureaucrat Atri Bhattacharya, and Sudip Mallick, owner of Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick, debated over whether the Indian government had the right to interfere with people's eating habits. The panelists talked about the politicisation of food in the country while addressing issues surrounding beef, GST levied on sweets and also the recent fight over rosogolla.

 

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