Our dabbawala took leave for a month. So, he surprised us by idlis embedded with fried potatoes!!
Here's a list of some of them:
-> Poach Poha (My favorite; Poha is a staple food of Maharastra. So, this cuisine served with a Poached egg on it!)
-> Hybrid Poha (Poha spiced with eggs and a poached egg on it)
-> Anda Poha(Poha with eggs)
-> Tushar Pao (a super senior named Tushar, once suggested the canteenwala to use malaai and potatoes with bun; the canteenwala named it Tushar pao!)
-> Anda Dhosa (dhosa served with an omelet on it!)
-> Anda Parantha (a cousin of egg roll)
Some of the above mentioned cuisines are also available at the Tapirs (jhopri motels!) outside the campus premises. They are the favourite haunts of hostelers for smoking and eyeing girls heading towards college. Babla, Anil bhav and Santosh are the famous ones. They are so popular that their fans have created communities at Orkut
These weird foods are the products of hungry and crazy hostelers, who, out of their monotonousness gave birth to such aptitudes.
During the papers we often used to visit the night canteen. It is said that engineering students study only before examination. It's like "dine ghum ratay jaga.. kukurrer moton owostha". This means sleeping during the day and staying awake during the night. .. personifying a dog!
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In the absence of dabbawala we crowned ourselves as cooks! [Here, 'we' portends me and Dharma. Arnab's outta station and the jumping-ass Srikant rarely gets home.] Our gas cylinder has gone empty and so we are using a electric heater abandoned by a senior. On the first day Dharma made ‘Chicken Masala’. The other day he decided to prepare Kichari. The heater was old and so its coil broke again and again due to over heating. However, Dharma lost no hope. He kept on fastening it, every time it broke. Maybe a 20 times! Hats off to his patience and to his 'Birbal ka khichari'.
For the next few days we ordered food from a nearby restaurant but cleaved to soups and noodles which are less cumbersome to prepare. When the heater showed no signs of life, we boiled Top Raman using immersion heater!
Dharma is a master cook. So, i kept myself away from the stove. I did the other works like cutting the vegetables and washing the dishes. Last winter we purchased a pack of three cheap dish-washing bars which are exasperatingly wear proof! A single bar witnessed a whole year! I love effacing its existence. In the course of its usage, a hole has developed into it. This is how the abraded soap looks like!
Our new dabbawala is a lively guy. He says, "Bhaiya aaj kheer aur pulao laya hoon. Garam-garam hai, kha lijiyega. Maza aajayega!"
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