I grew up in a culture where we eat many foods, including rice and rotis with our hands. And in other cultures there are foods called ‘finger-foods’ like fried chicken and burgers and pizza, that are meant to be eaten with one’s fingers BUT THE BIG RULE IS: one is allowed to put one’s finger [...]
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The One Big Rule About Using Fingers To Eat
Posted by Rita Banerji on May 22, 2012
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/the-one-big-rule-about-using-fingers-to-eat/
The Funeral of An Apple
Someone, had very lovingly gifted me this apple, which you see in the photo above, and it has been sitting in my fridge for over 10 days now! I never had any intentions of eating it. And one of the reasons I would never eat it is because this apple has done a lot of [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on June 5, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/the-funeral-of-an-apple-on-world-environment-day/
When Potato Cartels Kill
March 24, 2010 A potato farmer, Maktabul Hussein, only 18 years old, committed suicide today in Jalpaiguri, in West Bengal. Why? Because the price of potatoes have dropped so much that he could not make up the money to pay back the Rs. 500,000/- loans he had taken to cultivate his land. Maktabul was getting [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on March 26, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/when-potatoes-kill/








