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      Cooling off with Koozh along the NH75     Long drives are a pleasure as you pass through the countryside with a nostaligic music album or a good book playing on you car audio.  Our national highways are overloaded with eateries, with many offering 'free toilet' if you embrace being their customer.  But there are some 'no frill' eateries that appear along the way who are unable to offer you the perks like 'free toilet' and yet can offer you the best fare as you embark on the long drive.  As soon as you pass a village or a crowded town along the NH75 a series of handcarts appear along the side of the highway.  “ Koozh ” inscribed in Tamil script.  This Tamil word can be roughly translated as porridge in English. Not all the handcarts carry the inscription. However the hungry and travel weary customer who knows what ‘ Koozh ’ has to offer is sure to notice them.   They are spread out in a series so that as soon as ...

  It was somewhere in November 2017. It was the eve of Haloween. Some kids from our apartment situated in the IT hub of Bangalore, were getting ready all dressed up as monsters and witches to go around and knock the doors playing ‘trick or treat’. Earlier in the evening the parents flocked to the nearby shop to stock varieties of candies so that they had something to dole out when the kids came knocking for ‘Trick or treat’.   Our neighbourhood ‘ kirana’ store was run by a middle aged man who never really understood what this American ‘Trick or treat’ was all about.  That evening all the stock of cadbury's chocolates - perk, five star and even Ferrero Rocher was sold out. Many parents were walking away after enquiring, possibly to explore stocks of candies in yet another neighbourhood 'Kirana' store.   Massively irritated, he decided  to push his ‘Swadeshi’ agenda thus to a bunch of US born kids and their US returned parents.   Retrieved from...