There can never be enough potatoes for a gathering.
As published in Coonoor & Co. on 04, October, 2022.
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I gingerly measure the steps as I walk from one end of my new kitchen to the other. It takes me three steps fewer to traverse the territory compared to my old one — a minuscule fact that leaves me vaguely unsettled. The view outside my window doesn’t help. In my previous apartment, a place I called home for almost a decade, I could see the neighbour’s kids wander in and out of the kitchen around this time as the husband-wife duo frantically tackled dinner. We would either acknowledge each others’ presence with a wave or exchange pleasantries and dinner suggestions, when there was time for it. Here, I see the outline of movement in the other kitchen and a yellow bulb that shines through the near-opaque window.
I turn back to face my stove where a pot of boiling rasam and a pan with slow roasting potatoes greet my view. Now this is comforting, I think to myself.
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Cover image courtesy: Ramya Reddy