….majhiya gopala! This is what my great grandmother, Nena, would croon to me, as she handed over a small wati (bowl) of home-made butter with a sprinkling of sugar, which had been hitherto offered to the gods, as naivedyam. I was no Gopala, but since they had named me after His Wife, I had to […]
I must admit I was no fan of this drink a couple of years back. It was the classic case of gharki murgi daal barabar. I mean doodh-halad (milk-turmeric) concoction was always given to you when you had a nagging cough which took time to settle. In it’s pure pristine avataar, one gulped in down before […]
Remember the poem “Bits of paper”, and how all you had to do was pick up the bits of paper and put them in the dust bin to make the place clean and tidy. Times have changed since we were children. And today’s times call for more conscious citizenry to bring about the change in […]
This is the second post of the series. You can read the first one here. I have made some for dinner tonight. And that’s how bhakris make their way to today’s post. Hot, puffed, straight from the flames, and onto your plate. Eaten with pithla (a besan curry) or varan or usal (lentils) or paale […]
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