Rice monsters By S Mukhtar Kashmir's marriage season has well begun.
Many artificial species of genetically engineered flora and fauna now growing faster and earlier, the marriage season too is in a wild hurry.
Perhaps it is so because most of the marriages too nowadays are artificial.
The season's usual annual arrival was September-October: it salutes now July itself.
No marriage proceeding without great feasts of historically unparalleled chef-d'oeuvre, great are its gatherings, great the get-togethers, great the chorus songs, great in fact everything.
Sweet gossip perhaps is the greatest thing around.
Yesterday at a marriage feast we had an old grand man with us.
Pink and white, without any glasses and hearing aids, not even a walking stick, he was all fit and fine mentally too.
"I am proud of my generation.of my times! We lived longer, healthier, happier - yes we were more fortunate!" Yes, his visage attested his claim.
The old man was all proud, nay he boasted, of the Kashmiri style of marriage; elaborated he had travelled half round the world yet not seen any style anywhere, nor in fact any chef-d'oeuvre, as grand and majestic.
He continued: "Our forefathers would well estimate the nutritional values of foodstuffs.
And they described it beautifully", for instance: "I can take you where you wish; back, sorry, no!" says Rice.
"I can take you where you wish; back, dear, too!" says Wheat.
"I can take you wherever you wish; back gladly, dear, further on too!" says Maize.
"They evolved, prescribed, and popularised various chefs-d'oeuvre that have since been excellent combinations of what far later came to be called carbohydrates, proteins, etc.
True, they knew what a balanced diet was and how best to provide it." "They also developed the garam sarad concept which, laughed at for a pretty long time though, is now being slowly accepted." "Great really of our forefathers.as they had nothing but bare eyes and hands for the labs we now depend on!" "Why Uncle then little wheat and no maize in Kashmiri chef-d'oeuvre?" interrupted a youth.
"That dear is my only grievance about it.
We're voracious rice-eaters.
We go where we wish to go.
Having gone wrong, we wish to return.
But return we can't! We are too much short of the required urge, drive, passion, and energy.
That is.historically.so true in every field of ours! Rice's above claim seems very true! And that got us the nickname Bata Jinn (Rice Monsters)!" Yet lo Uncle himself had a hearty bata! No youth could compete! About us | Advertise | Other Publications | Subscriptions | Weather | Letters | Send Mail Disclaimer: Information is being made available at this site purely as a measure of public facilitation.
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