The malls are quite vulgar. The amount of food thrown into the dustbins in kalyana mandapams is heart rending. Weddings are all show. Everyone stands in a queue like a conveyor belt today, and there is little warmth.I remember being very amused to see people standing in a queue, when I attended a marriage in Bangalore (early 2000) after I joined Texas Instruments for my project work. I remember mentioning the same to my roommate and he said that it is the case 'everywhere' :o I had not seen such a thing in my state, ie Tamil Nadu then. As always, being part of India, the rot comes into Tamil Nadu too, albeit a bit late but latest ;)
Today, they want marriages on weekends and I guess they attend it 'religiously' so that they can avoid cooking :( Coming to 'cooking', the quality of cooking has gone to the abyss. I have not tasted a well-cooked 'home food' for decades. Of course, my mother was always exceptional, maybe as they say that you cant beat Tirunelveli women in cooking. For the modern womenfolk, medium becomes the means. They spend a lot of time on 'frills' and 'garnishing' to make it 'look good', not taste good. My maternal grandmother was good, unsurprisingly, though I think she was not 'exposed' to different genres of food, having lived most of her life in Sri Lanka. She was very very ordinary when it came to roti or food out of wheat in general. Unfortunately, culinary skills of my sisters remain very ordinary. They can take comfort that they are like the rest of the world :o In marriages, they talked much about giving dosai when the trend started, instead of the usual pongal and idli. Now it is probably a surprise if dosai is not given in a marriage.
Lot of choice but no variety :(
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