Dehradun, Feb. 15 -- Culinary Chronicles

"Give her bran in roti and only brown bread." He recommended for my tender gut.

Bran sounded exquisite and brown bread meant some gourmet variety of bread to me. For a child of eight years these were fancy words. In the entire Mussoorie, only Chick Chocolate on the Mall Road offered premium bakery products in early and mid-eighties. So, the hazel hued loaves with a drizzle of coarse bran on top were picked from there for me.

There can be fond memories of doctors too. I grew up in an era when the world wasn't as commercial as it is now. Association and business was divided by clear margins. There was a relation of fiduciary and therapeutic trust between a doctor and the patients.

Mussoorie had a...