A GOOD PARSI SALE

by Aban Bana

It is a tradition in our community to have an Exhibition and Sale a couple of weeks before a Parsi festival. These Sales are a real joy to visit, even if you don’t need to buy anything. Last weekend there was an Exhibition cum Sale in Cama Baug at Grant Road, which I attended.

The Cama Baug sale had everything to delight the Parsi Heart! First of all there was delicious FOOD, the kind for which people queue up for hours on end, with colourful names like Chapat, Dar-ni-pori, Bhakhra, Popatji, besides the usual kababs and batata wada and falooda! So that’s reason enough to go. No food, no good. Being a vegetarian I had no problem because Parsis are now waking up to the fact that there is life beyond meat. So I tucked into the batata vadas, but skipped the fattening chapats. There were others like me who had come to look and to buy, mostly Parsis of course. It could be interesting for non-Parsis too actually! Read more