My friend , Prachee Gokhale from New Zealand, recently decided to make Jilebis. This involves passing some fermented viscous dough through a small aperture (like that of a squeeze bottle) , and have it falling in artistic spirals , into hot oil; the fried designs are then immersed in sugar syrup and they emerge as jilebis, usually greatly loved by everyone.
Sometimes, the designs are different, not in perfect circle spirals, but in random shapes. There is no difference in taste. At all. But entire generations grow up, thinking that circular spirals is the only perfect way of making jilebis. And sometimes , this kind of thinking pervades life.
Think again. I did and came up with something these jilebis teach us. (A little bit of deeper thinking, had me recalling spiral structures and DNA. Never mind. I am sure Watson and Crick did not have jilebis in mind. )
Read on to understand why......
Thoughts fer̥menting
with a bit, nay, a lot of help
from those with a
sour mentality,
and a sudden outpouring
into hot oil
through a small aperture.
Sometimes
the design is mixed up,
unique, misshapen, broken
and sometimes ,
a thing of beauty,
all wrapped up in its own curves.
The sugar syrup, like life,
doesn't differentiate.
It makes them all equally sweet .
It clearly, knows,
something,
we humans do not.
with a bit, nay, a lot of help
from those with a
sour mentality,
and a sudden outpouring
into hot oil
through a small aperture.
Sometimes
the design is mixed up,
unique, misshapen, broken
and sometimes ,
a thing of beauty,
all wrapped up in its own curves.
The sugar syrup, like life,
doesn't differentiate.
It makes them all equally sweet .
It clearly, knows,
something,
we humans do not.
