India, Sept. 26 -- If you have to assign blame, which I, like President Trump, like to do, blame the Southeast monsoon. If it weren't for this wretched weather system, we wouldn't have the Rabi and Kharif crops agricultural cycle, and if it weren't for the Kharif crops, we wouldn't be harvesting pulses and grains in September in South India, and if we didn't harvest these pulses at this particular time, we wouldn't have this very specific pulse-laden prasadam called sundal for Navarathri or Dussehra. There is no polite way to say this and I might be burned on the stake for saying so but hey, can we get over our insistence on stuffing unsuspecting children with this virtuous sprouted protein and worse, calling it a festive delicacy?

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