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Aurangabad-Schooling & Junior College / Bombay- Graduation & First job/ Chennai - Marriage & Motherhood
AURANGABAD
TOOP
SAAKHAR POLI - All 3 are Marathi Words. Poli is Roti ( Indian flatbread), Toop
is Ghee ( Clarified butter) &
Saakhar is Sugar. Apply a liberal
quote of ghee on rotis & sprinkle it with Fine powdered sugar.
- Will entice your taste buds if you need a quick bite.
- It's a happy snack when taken to school.
- Its an interesting makeover with leftover rotis..
- I can go on and on.... on this one....
BOMBAY
TINKLE DIGEST- Summer vacations meant, joining a nearby library. When most of my friends went for Famous Five; Secret Seven & Nancy
Drew- I picked up Tinkle Digest. Supandi/
Ramu- Shamu/ Doob-Doob/ Tantri- Mantri- never failed to excite. It took some
time to realize, books without pictures can also be interesting.
CHENNAI
THOUSANDS
LIGHT - It was a crowded bus & there were many standees. I was one of them.
Bus conductor was 3 people ahead of me. A lady standing behind me, requested
that I buy her a ticket for "Thousand Lights".
Thousand
Lights is well known bus stop - but I was too new to the City to know about it.
On top of it - she was referring to the Tamil name of Thousand Lights- which
was all the more difficult for me understand.
I
was figuring out how to tell her that "Neither is your voice audible, nor
is the language familiar to me". Its too long a sentence to tell in Tamil
on a moving bus.
Thankfully
another person came to rescue & bought her the ticket.
When I visited Chennai for the first time, and I heard about Thousand Lights, I found that the place name quite interesting. And wondered whether actually there are a thousand lights somewhere there.
ReplyDeleteI very well understand your dilemma. After graduation I got a job in Delhi and stayed there for a few years. I did not know Hindi. I once went to a local restaurant for dinner. I wanted one more roti. The server did not understand what I was requesting. Finally, I said pointing to my plate "roti bito". He understood and brought one more roti.
ReplyDeleteToop - learnt a new word! Did not know this meant ghee in marathi
ReplyDeleteTinkle - one of my favourites too! I remember you drawing Suppandi once - not sure if you still have that diagram :)
Thousand lights - now that you mention it, I recall the announcement at the metro station going: "Adutha niruthham, aayiram vilakku"
Aww! This post made me do some time travel. Our Maharashtrian friends used to make Toop Saakhar Poli and we loved gorging on it!!
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