Curry And Naan

Reading and posting about SM Stirling's Angrezi Raj in his The Peshawar Lancers (New York, 2003) has been and still is a transcendent experience. Alternative universes meet in the imagination if not as yet in reality.

Hero and villain, Athelstane King and Count Ignatieff, fight an epic sword battle on top of a sinking dirigible. Will the narrative become anti-climactic after the villain's death? Or can he somehow rise again?

The dirigible is damaged, unmaneuverable and sinking with its crew murdered but that does not mean that the kitchen is not working!

"Servants came in, bearing food - the kitchens were still working, thank the merciful Gods. Cassandra started wolfing down a fiery chicken Marsala, scooping up sauce and rice with pieces of naan; nobody was standing on ceremony now." (p. 432)

I have recently mentioned Indian food and it is good to see it appreciated here. Our family is vegetarian except for Sheila who does eat chicken dishes. Lassi, especially mango lassi, should be drunk after, not before or during, the meal because it fills you up. I like aloo (potato) dishes (see image).

India has given us:

"Arabic" numerals with the decimal point;
Buddhism;
yoga;
non-violence;
curry;
sitar music;
two long epics - Mahabharata and Ramayana;
rich and colorful mythology.