kahaniya (stories): Life has to be nourished.

Eat, shit, sleep. Its what we do, some even go say, "that's life in a nutshell". Although our lives are cyclically repetitive, things don't need to get mundane. Violet and i have, rather naturally, been exploring the awesome and diverse delicacies of India. Our food-quest approach is a healthy mix of exploring restaurants, state bhavan hopping (details on that soon), crashing weddings, braving street-food, and enjoying good old 'ghar ka khana' (home cooking). As expected, our friend group is populated by wonderful people from different parts of the world and from the many regions of India (did you know there are over 4,315 different communities here?!), so we have been tapping into their regional specialties as well.

below are just a few of many snapshots to make you salivate.

(Disclaimer: these photos may not be suitable for people bored at work, women pms-ing, or those with empty stomachs)

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Home cooked Bengali fish fry, sweet daal, and rice

by our 'Bong' (Bengali) friend, Shankhayan:

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Here in Delhi, good meals end in laughs and with mangoes for dessert.

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Eating 'meethai' (sweets) from a Panjabi wedding in Chandigarh.

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Crazy 'chef' at a Panjabi Dhaba, a road-side food hut that we stopped

at on the way from Delhi to Dharamshala.

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Enjoying kulfi, ice-cream-esque dessert,

that was made frozen by plunging in a Himalayan glacial river.

Bhagsu, Himachal Pradesh.

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Raghu oogling an amazing breakfast after a long 12 hour bus ride.

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Mangoes, delicious in places with sinks and floss; dangerous in places where you don't want to be a horrible sticky mess, aka: buses / desk at your office / nice sofa in the living room.