The Bag Group Dinner Jan 2018

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Annapurna, after the last set of bags was parcelled and weighed and addressed, "Madam, we are all very tired. Today we will enjoy. we will have a dinner today."

"Yes, we should have thought of that. When you come back from Pakala after sending out the parcels, bring things to eat. "

Anita," We will cook madam. It will cost less. Also our food is much tastier than what we can buy. We can buy bananas, and a sweet. Abd make vegetable rice. "

It was a relaxed evening of peeling garlic, cutting vegetables, setting up a firewood stove outside, and cooking a fragrant rice. The children all wandered in to taste the appetizing smells.

Evening at home it was a spread of vegetable rice, a spoon of mixture, a jelebi and a banana. For us and for who all dropped by.

Yes, eating out, or buying outside food would never allow for such unlimited sharing.

...  And back to steady stitching from the next day... 

Aparna Krishnan

18 January at 13:12

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Fun always follows work in the village. "Madam, the printing we will do by today. That is our responsibility. But we have to have our dinner today. And we also have a gift for you !"

So cooking a vegetable rice and chutney. And a sweet to follow !

Hours of peeling garlic, cutting vegetables, grinding masalas, slow cooking over the firewood, for the perfect vegetable rice, potato kurma, tamarind chutney.

Food thrice what we needed was cooked. As all the village kids came, drawn by the aroma. They were fed first. Other village people passing by were called and seated and fed. Then we all ate.

This is the cultured life.

In cities I see feasting in fancy hotels, while the poor look on.