Making the India documentary nobody ever commissioned.

Papadum Diaries is Sunil "Bitti" Gupta, a British-Indian dad in his sixties making the India travel documentary nobody ever commissioned. It's a first-person homecoming to his roots, going back to India again and again: Delhi, the roadside India in between, and the places his family actually comes from.

Mostly Delhi and the roadside India in between: the chai stalls, the markets, the lanes nobody stops in. The heart of it is the places his family actually comes from, not the tourist monuments.

You can watch on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, all @papadumdiaries. They're short, bite-sized videos, with new ones on the way.

Sometimes. The Golden Triangle is India's best-known tourist route, and the odd trip takes in part of it. But Papadum Diaries isn't a tourist route, it's a homecoming, so the heart of it is Delhi and the places his family comes from, not the monuments.

Sunil, known to everyone as Bitti, is the British-Indian dad in his sixties at the centre of Papadum Diaries. He came to England as a baby, grew up one of the only brown boys at his school, and went back on his own at fifteen to spend three years at university in Jaipur. He speaks English with a South London public-school accent and Hindi like he never left, and he switches between them without noticing. Now he goes back to India again and again with a phone and his mum, filming the documentary he always wanted to make.

It's called Papadum Diaries because he's everyone's Papa, and like a papadum, the crispiest thing on the Indian table, he's impossible to ignore. The "Diaries" part matters too: this is a travel diary, not a highlight reel.

Each one is a short, bite-sized video, a phone-shot slice of India: roadside chai, mango season, a one-pound thali, the drive through Delhi traffic. Warm, funny and real, with his own commentary over the top.

Yes. Papadum Diaries is on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, all under the handle @papadumdiaries.

Yes, fluently. He spent three years at university in Jaipur, and moves between Hindi and English without thinking. In the videos he'll be talking to camera in English one moment and to a street vendor in Hindi the next. He doesn't announce it, he just does it.