idlis and my hatred
January 30th, 2010 § 8 Comments
Those of you who are still looking for some sense in what I write, please dont read this.
Before entering bansal classes, I might have tasted idli 1/2 times that too in few ‘shadis’. So my experience with idli was almost nil. My first wild encounter with idli was in the form of weekly torture of our PG aunty at kota. She used to force-feed us(me and my pg-mates) with tastless mounds of rice and whatever(she used to stuff something in the core of idli) She was a punjabi and we never said no to any other dish she made. But we extremely hated her preparation of idli. So we protested to change the menu for that particular day of the week. She didn’t listen to us. We even saw her making parathas for her daughter while we were sitting in the dining room and eating her pathetic idli. So we decided to boycott lunch on the next same week day. Nobody touched the idlis aunty made. She even came and persuaded us. Being the headstrong we were, we rejected her appeal. This led to complete transformation of our aunty into a ‘ jagruk bhartiya nari’. She shouted at us in a way that can only go with a punjabi woman weighing 120 kg. The shouting was followed with tears dripping on her face and testifying that we were the culprits of this case. Needless to say, we finished her idlis that day and that every weekday of two years of our stay there.
But the hatred I developed for idlis there continued till my last visit to south India. First day at chennai, I ate the best idli of my life, but also it was the only tasty idli I had during the whole trip. That trip increased my hatred to the level that I asked my mum not to cook rice at home for a whole month.
Well you must be wondering why am I writing all this. Its because today I ate the second best idli of my life. It was the breakfast at subansiri mess. I had two of them. First one was cold and second one being from the fresh slot, was hot and little oily. And that made me wonder that idli is like dhokla but with no spices or the tasty yellow color.
The prob is people shud stick to their specializations. Punjabis cooking idlis..u cant expect better
honestly speaking, im a bigger fan of dosa than of idli.and the best that i hv had was at home…we specialize in rice delicacies
I wonder second best idli of your life was cooked in subansiri hostel mess!
Before college, south indian food was like a delicacy to me……but this south indian mess food (sp. daily rice) has developed a hatred in me for south indian food and has increased the affinity towards “Ghar ka khana”…which was not there earlier…so thnxx to IIT mess.
nd yaa I seriously doubt your last para….about that idli being your second best idli of life….
well, u can get an idea if i am regarding mess’ idli as second best, then what kind of idlis i had to eat in kota and durig south trip
Wonder how much Life is similar to an IDli……plain is tasteless..it really needs a spicing up !!
Idli’s they are Soo Damn delicious if well prepared:::mere ghar ana tereko 120 kg ka bana dunga:::well i m damn concerned for ur ruthless aunty ::next tym u go to kota stab her with fork: and stuff her with her own idlis:::
‘jagruk bhartiya nari’==hahahhahahahah
@SINcere.. someday will sure visit ur home but will prefer to eat vada pao rather than idli
so i guess eventually we took our revenge 
n abt jagruk aunty, while leavin kota we fused all the electrical switches of our floor