Kashmiri Cuisine Through The Ages

 A must have cookbook if you are keen to swing the ladle for some delicious Kashmiri food. Simple steps and authentic to the core! 

I even tried Shufta, a dessert almost forgotten in most of the Kashmiri parties across the plains.

Thank you Mrs Razdan for the book!

PS: Surprisingly in an extremely unconventional Kashmiri way, Mrs Razdan is neither directly nor indirectly related to me.

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Vanara

Wish we would start giving more attention to the Southern twist to our mythologies. Our Gods do have feet of clay as this book shows. A must read! 

‘May I know why you shot me slyly instead of facing me like a man Lord Rama?’ Baali asked. 

‘You had done injustice to your brother.’

‘You could’ve faced me like a man’, Baali said.

‘You stole his wife’, Rama declared.

‘You could’ve faced me like a man,’ Baali laughed.

‘You’re evil and my dharma is to eliminate evil,’ Rama said. 

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Yasodhara

How little we know about those whom we worship. A poignant first hand narrative by Yasodhara, wife of Shakya Muni Gautam Buddha, her trials and tribulations as the Prince sought to find the true meaning of suffering and sought to bring peace to the world. Yasodhara fought her own battles seeking peace within herself.     "But you caused suffering to find the end of  suffering," I repeated, incapable of letting the paradox go.  "The bonds we were holding onto caused suffering. The bonds you are holding onto still." I wasn't holding on, I told myself stubbornly.

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