My blogging friend, botanist researcher Sangeeta Khanna recently visited Sikkim , and was smitten by various local veggies that don't normally make an appearance , say, in big metros. Naturally, she probably lugged back a basket of those , to experiment later while cooking.
Have a look at the various vegetables here. While some were heard of but not seen , there were some which looked a bit hybrid. Like the ones below.
Neither the brinjals nor the tomato parivars would have been thrilled. Purity and all that.
And a thought kept reccurring in the mind. ......
and
BJP red tomato
eloped to the mountains
straight from the backyard
of Lutyen's Delhi.
No Party Sharty
in the Himalayas,
and a tough
but a healthy life
slogging in the winds
and cold
and brilliant Himalayan Sun,
and
their children happened,
losing all the
excessive colorful traits,
except the beaklike stem
from
all the shouting their parents did
in Parliament.
You can tell
whose children they are,
but they all now belong
to the Greens Party.
Lovely read! :)
ReplyDeleteI definitely lugged them all back, some 5 kilos of different vegetables, greens and mushrooms. Some Orchids too.
ReplyDeleteThese ones probably are the primates of the tomato-brinjal world, so may be more purist than the modern breeds ;-)
May be they are trying to cover their faces seeing how their offspring are behaving in the parliament?