SWEET NOTHINGS

Now we all know how mithai loses its original smack once its been in the fridge. And when that mithai happens to be a favourite one - what’s more, a seasonal speciality delivered from another town - that loss of flavour becomes all the more discernible.

However, no matter how aggrieved a man is by this sort of loss, he ought to know better than to allow such rhetorical queries to escape his lips: ‘किसका बेफ़क़ूफ़ी भरा idea था घेवर को फ़्रिज में रखने का?’

No sooner have I uttered those words than I find myself under the blaze of a chilling stare; a very, very, chilling stare. She doesn’t actually say anything, but that of course doesn’t imply that my impetuousness will go unpunished.

Revenge, unlike मलाई घेवर, is a dish best served cold.