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Going Native in Awadh, this Diwali

After what appears like aeons, I spent this Diwali with at parents’ place in semi-urban parts of Awadh (well, even Lucknow is hardly urban, but that’s a different discussion). Four days since I reached my native town, now back in Noida and a couple of kilograms heavier, I realize how it is a completely different [...]

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Best Mutton Do-Pyaza in the World

It all started in 1973, when my father who is a native of Banaras (Varanasi) moved to little known town of Sultanpur to teach Sociology to post-grads. There he met Qazi Afzal, who taught Urdu in the college, and is today a Professor of Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University. Together they discovered Khadim bhai’s eponymous [...]

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