A to Z Challenge - My Theme- City Connect - my connect with....
Aurangabad-Schooling & Junior College / Bombay- Graduation & First job/ Chennai - Marriage & Motherhood
AURANGABAD
HURDA PARTY - Gathering at
a farm to get a slice of rural life is what Hurda Party is all about. Internet
tells me Pune / Solapur are famous for Hurda parties. But before internet/ www/ google - there was Aurangabad which brought me this experience.
Eating/ Chewing / consuming "Raw" -just as the nature provides it to us-
was the essence of Hurda parties. I remember tasting milk- freshly milked from
cow .
BOMBAY
HIGH RISES -Talk about Bombay
and 2 things you can't miss.1 is the
High Rise Buildings & other is the.........……..I leave it blank for now. My
Prompt M will talk about it. Sky line of Bombay is a widely discussed subject. Sea facing or City Facing they ask. The book Mumbai
Fables talks about how a planned Satellite City called New Bombay [ Navi Mumbai]got built
giving details of the high rises and landscape of Bombay.
CHENNAI
HOTEL SARAVANA BHAVAN
- Long before, orange shirt swiggy
friends came in; we use to go to restaurants to pick up food. Hotel Saravana
Bhavan on our street has been a long time friend. We use to call it our " Extended
Kitchen". There have been Sundays when - Home Cooked rice + Saravana Bhavan Sambhar have been on our plates. And that's the reason why I could
instantly relate to the ad that says " Kuch ghar pe banaya - kuch swiggy se mangwaya"
Who cannot think of Saravana Bhavan! There are 2 Saravana Bhavans in the Bay Area itself. Just a suggestion. It would be helpful to non-Hindi speakers if you give an English translation whenever you write something in Hindi.
ReplyDeleteThanks SG- for your suggestion. Will surely bracket the translations from hereon.
ReplyDeleteHere "Kuch ghar pe banaya - kuch swiggy se mangwaya" is the tagline of Swiggy which means -"Cook some at home / order some from swiggy"
Milk straight from cows--my memories exactly:)
ReplyDeleteWe used to live in Chennai when it was called Madras. Sarvana Bhawan thali used to be so yummy.
Hurda party sounds interesting. Staying close to nature has always allured me.
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