Hearty Breakfast of Rawat Ki Kachodi at Jaipur

Jaipur - March 23

You know you are old when you ignore the upset stomach and sleep to gorge on Pyaz Ki kachodi from Rawat & add half a mawa kachodi to it. Done, that’s a hearty breakfast.

The other thing which you realize as you write at 55 is that most of your writing is like a memoir because you want to cherish the memories you are making and start hunting memories.

My visits to Kanpur and Lucknow was to meet Mama & Mashi (mother’s brother and sister) but it also brought back memories which were made when I was a growing up and used to make my summer holiday trips to Kanpur.

Lastly you give more weightage to meet physically even if it’s a shorter duration like the current visit when we are meeting Nikita & Joyeeta for just 2 days. These are the only 2 days when we will be a family but the effort required to make it happen is worth it.

As we grow old, you can either be terribly fit like many of my friends who live by the book – in terms of food intake, sleep, drinks, physical activity and there are some who say we have to anyway go so might as well make the best of it – eat, drink, make merry & lastly there are some like us who follow the middle path. Be austere when you are on your own but maximize the short visits and occasions.  

Hence the deep fried breakfast we had today (and we will have tomorrow) in honour of the children who are back.