Nostalgia
Photo Credit: dorte.schneider
I travel on average, for two weeks a month, and I have to often go abroad. The major form my homesickness takes when I’m abroad is my longing for Indian food. I have a soft corner for street food, and Mumbai’s street fare has always been my favourite, probably because my college years were spent there. You can’t beat it for variety - you can go to a hole in the wall and find Parsi, Goan, Tamilian and even Lebanese fare, besides the good old dahi puri and vada pav. But so much of this reminiscence - its been a couple of years since I’ve last had a chance to visit the stalls at Chowpatty.
Tags: Mumbai, nostalgia, street food
January 8th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Can relate to that. I live in the US and miss everything about India! Are you really able to walk on the streets and at Chowpatty like a common man? You are almost a super star in India - I imagine you can get easily mobbed!
January 8th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Yum! Am missing Mumbai too,
HNY 09 and am waiting for a post on scandal a la Satyam … and yes, public domain stuff is all “for the record”
January 19th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Nandan,
I must confess that it was with some skepticism that I bought your book. All traces of that feeling disappeared as I completed it last evening. Thank you for such an wonderful insight into an age that straddles our country’s past and squints its eyes against the bright future ahead.
As regards this particular post, did you notice that in the picture you selected, the shop-owner is using a domestic LPG cylinder to prepare his (commercial) fare? Perhaps this quite symbolizes that many “tasty” end products are often produced with not-entirely-above-the-water inputs (investors in a Hyderabad based software company would concur!).
Sincerely
Subrata