SOUL FOOD
(Naimat Khana Restaurant)
You enter almost on tiptoes
till the aromas
send you on a discovery
of lost home-cooked marvels
and the history of culinary delights
unfolds.
You have a spoonful of saalan
and the heavens' feast
gets prepared in good stead.
You come here
to discover new and old palates.
You leave with the soul of the city,
delectable in your mouth.
*Saalan means gravy-based dish.
CROSSROADS
(Kaiserbagh Crossroads)
Always busy,
always plagued by the timeless habits of commotion,
this site of many voices
and permanent movements
makes the city revolve around its circle of life.
From the crossroads,
thousands of little wishes and dreams
travel far ahead of hidden alleys and narrow lanes.
You sometimes stand in the middle and browse through the collections of shouts and silent eyes.
This part of the city
never rests.
It is borne out of the collective and the mundane
yet is immortal with its daily repository of chaos.
Prithvijeet Sinha is an MPhil from the University of Lucknow, having launched his prolific writing career by self-publishing on the worldwide community Wattpad since 2015 and on his WordPress blog An Awadh Boy’s Panorama. Besides that, his works have been published in several journals and anthologies.
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