S3E6: BAWL
All kids love to listen to stories. And, when the storyteller is your grandma, even grown-ups can’t resist. Saadiya, Saba & Soofi nagged their grand-mother to narrate them the famous story of Birbal ki Khichdi once again. It tickled their funny bone! And they named the story ‘Baawli Handiya’, the crazy dish literally. However, the ‘Baawli Handia’ is the name of an actual dish too. At one hand where the dinner was sorted after listening ‘Baawli Handiya’ for kids’ Mom who was wondering what to cook; Grandmother felt nostalgic of her own childhood. While she wanders in the lanes of her memory thinking of another dish ‘Baawli Handiya’ introduced by the lady who used to come her home to pick garbage, we get to listen to her story too. It is lovely how this story subtly passes not only the moral from Birbal’s khichdi but also from grandma’s tale. And, it is proved once again that no one does it quite like grandma did. Our grand Moms were never afraid to use leftover. They knew how to be thrifty. Their ‘Baawli Handiya’ was not a crazy dish but a meticulous and frugal effort.
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