In this episode of Indian Women Abroad, I sit down with Kashmiri-Australian writer and cookbook author Sarina Kamini to explore a deeply personal question: how do you belong to a land you’ve never been able to return to?Sarina, a Kashmiri Pandit, grew up with a homeland shaped entirely through stories, recipes, and memory — not physical experience. With Kashmir’s political history and displacement shaping her family’s past, food became her only way of touching a place she couldn’t visit.In this emotional conversation, Sarina opens up about:✨ Growing up feeling like “being Kashmiri Pandit is a made-up thing”✨ Seeing herself represented for the first time — through chef Sandeep Pandit on MasterChef✨ The power of food to restore identity and memory✨ Writing about heritage in a country far from home✨ What it means to reclaim belonging as an adultThis is one of the most moving conversations we’ve had on the show — a story about identity, displacement, and the quiet power of food to bind generational histories.👉 Listen now and let Sarina’s journey remind you of the invisible threads that hold us to home.

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