Tandoor

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World in a dish | Burning Out; Officials in Mumbai want to extinguish the charcoal tandoor. The Economist, May 3, 2025, at page 70.

Note:
(a) tandoor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandoor
("The standard heating element of a tandoor is an internal charcoal or wood fire, which cooks food with direct heat and smoke. Tandoors can be fully above ground, or partially buried below ground, often reaching over a meter in height/depth. Temperatures in a tandoor can reach 480 °C (900 °F; 750 K)" )
please view photos in this Wiki page to see how bread or meat is cooked in tandoor. You should also search images.google.com with (tandoor meat) to see how large pieces of meat are cooked in tandoor, which look like BBQ in an enclosed chamber.
(b) "Clay ovens used for baking bread are mentioned in 'The Epic of Gilgamesh,' perhaps the oldest recorded story"

Epic of Gilgamesh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
(Gilgamesh was "king of Uruk * * * (c 2100 BCE) * * * [The epic] dates back to the 18th century BCE
(c) "the ancient Harappan civilisation (which spanned present-day Punjab) baked chickens in clay ovens."

Harappan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harappan
(may refer to: "The Indus Valley civilisation or Harappan civilisation")

Indus Valley Civilisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
(3300 - 1300 BCE; "The term Harappan is sometimes applied to the Indus Civilisation after its type site Harappa, the first to be excavated early in the 20th century in what was then the Punjab province of British India and is now Punjab, Pakistan")
India has state of Punjab. The ancient Punjab region was partitioned in the formation of India and Pakistan.
(d) "tandoori chicken was adapted into chicken tikka masala, perhaps Britain's favourite curry."
(i) chicken tikka masala
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala
does not have curry as an ingredient.
(ii) English dictionary:
* tikka (n; Hindi & Urdu [noun masculine] tikkā small piece of meat, from [classical] Persian [noun تکه romanization] tikka [piece]): "an Indian dish of marinated meat cooked on a skewer"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tikka
* masala (n; Hindi & Urdu masālā [spice(s), from Classical Persian مصالح (romanization: masālih): Wiktionary]: "a varying blend of spices used in Indian cooking"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/masala