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| Often of a beautiful morning after having returned from a walk I find my grandchildren in a stretch of confusion wondering what to have for breakfast and what not. I watch them open the refrigerator and look inside the pantry eyeing the packages on the shelves, battling to choose from the wide range in offer - cereals in flashy packages; baked potatoes, chips and fries, pastries, waffles and doughnuts, candies, cookies, and cakes , breads and bagels of different makes - fruit juices and medleys fresh fruits of all varieties and seasons; milk – low fat, full fat, zero fat, yoghurt of several cultures; coffee - brewed and instant, tea - hot, iced and gourmet…. Even as the list goes on and on they are lost in indecision and look at me as if posing a question! Then I relate with nostalgia my days of childhood and youth back home in India and tell them all I had for breakfast was a steaming hot cup of tea from the samovar and a fresh loaf of round bread from the only baker in the neighborhood - the same white loaf everyday that I would so eagerly await as the baker tossed it hot from the oven into my waiting hands and I juggled it from one hand to another to let it cool down before I fell on it with my ravenous appetite and ate with such a relish! When my grandchildren watch how the very thought of that flavor sends my mouth watering and flares my nostrils six decades later, they shout, “That is the bread we would like, grandpa, that is the breakfast we are looking for!” Saratoga, Ca. USA |
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 *Dr. K L Chowdhury retired as a Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Srinagar. Presently he is the Director of a charitable institution, Shriya Bhatt Mission Hospital and Research Center, Durga Nagar, Jammu. He is a physician and neurologist, a medical researcher, poet, social activist. He writes on diverse subjects – medical, literary, social and political and has numerous research papers to his credit, his pioneering work being “The Health Trauma in a Displaced Population” which was presented at national and international conferences. He was declared Shehjar's 'Kashmiri Person of the year' for 2007. |
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