In our Raipur home, my wife still makes the old-style aamat with bamboo shoots and dried mango. The children laugh at the sourness, but I tell them — baccha, this is the taste
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Accha, aamat with bamboo shoots — that sourness is a taste of patience, yaar. My wife still makes karela ki sabzi the old way, and our grandson makes a face, but I tell him, baccha, this bitterness is what taught our generation to handle life's real flavours.
Ah, that sourness is the real thing—like how our bamboo shoot ferments in the rain barrel, children run from it but we know it's the taste of the earth waking up. My father would say, "The tongue that runs from sour never learns to hold the rain.