Summer
haze makes the glittering tower sway.
Sloth of the brain
doesn't help either.
What made a silent family jump under the train?
I wonder, a world away.
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- Devi Anahit
- The plum (alu in Farsi) of Bukhara became the potato (aloo in Bangla and Urdu) on its way from Iran to the Indian subcontinent. Such is the fate of travelers -- to transform and be transformed; to forget that one ever knew certain things; to remember without trying when least expected. Junctions are places of meeting, not just for travelers, but also of stories, words, cuisines, histories and memories. Stop here a while. Rest, read, remember and tell the stories of how plums surreptitiously and impossibly became potatoes and stole the hearts of nations. Eat well. Be well.
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