Dehradun, Dec. 13 -- Culinary Chronicles

A long, treacherous drive of twenty-five hundred kilometres from Guwahati to Jalandhar in Punjab that included a traverse through the "Blissful Bihar".

Many apprehensions swirled my mind before voyaging a road trip to Bihar - the state with deep royal roots, culture and heritage. To my astonishment Bihar was mesmerising with a touch of nature and history. Nothing close to what I had heard or seen through the eyes of the media or in the motion pictures.

Four of us, including our pet, a Saint Bernard, stepped into the state via Kishanganj. There was some kind of fright in my mind which soon disappeared on witnessing the sublime conditions.

The rock mountains of Rajgir where the university of Nala...