Written by Surbhi Gupta |Updated: August 13, 2019 9:14:52 am
A new book explains the A to Z of Kashmiri culture to children
Writer-blogger Onaiza Drabu’s first book — Okus Bokus (Rs 600, Sonth Kashmir) — is making an attempt to introduce the A to Z of Kashmiri culture and lifestyle to children.
It is winter or what is better described in Kashmir as chilai kalan — the harshest 40 days of the season — and siblings Billa and Munni don’t have school. Sometime around noon, they ask their grandmother, who they lovingly call naen, if they could have some kahwa and girda — the traditional tea and bread combination. It is then that their naen explains to them that while girda, a tandoori bread, is to be had during breakfast, it is czochwor that is had in afternoon. It is a bagel-shaped bread, sprinkled with sesame seeds, that people like dunking in a cup of salted tea or nun chai. Writer-blogger Onaiza Drabu’s first book — Okus Bokus (Rs 600, Sonth Kashmir) — is making an attempt to introduce the A to Z of Kashmiri culture and lifestyle to children. At the moment, it is available for sale on Koshur Lifestyle, an all women-run e-commerce enterprise engaged in creating contemporary products with a Kashmiri twist.
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