The rains have kicked in, and while there’s much joy in that cup of hot chai or latte or chai latte with assorted vegetable and chickpea fritters or pakoras, there’s much more to look forward to, especially in the evenings. In motley pockets around the city, at around sunset, you’ll see scores of people, a lot of them men, converge around pop-up food carts and stalls that show up every year. Heaps of fresh fruit and dried dates, and a spread of hearty food and cool drinks to nourish and…
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Platter Up!
Choices, choices Whoever came up with calling variety the spice of life would probably have never imagined the cornucopia of varied options we would enjoy in our present day lives. There has definitively never been a better time to be spoilt for choice—enterprise after enterprise is out to bring the best to our homes and other areas of our lives. Choice has never been so wide-ranging and important, or manifold and exciting. Exciting options everywhere, there has never been a better time to be spoilt for choice. Especially when it…
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Growing up in Bombay, we had Savitabai who came around every other morning with her ‘tokri’ of fresh fish. She’d get them straight from Sassoon Dock in Colaba so they really were fresh. The only problem we’d ever had with her was it was always the same fish! Prawns, Pomfret, Mackerel, Surmai or Bombay Duck! As my brother and I grew older, we wanted more to choose from but no amount of cajoling or screaming or even begging helped. She very stoically maintained “heych ahe, ghey aataa” (this is whats…
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