The starchy, tuberous thing? Well what can a person write on it, apart from its unprecedented use in making variety of food? I believe that people have been treacherous in appreciating it, while using it almost to the importance of oxygen. Oh you have some issues- you don't eat it, not often? Well you better don't continue reading because it might make you feel less productive than this brown, smooth, oval crop. Being forth most highly used crop in the world, it’s never been narcissist like its seniors Mr. Wheat and Mrs. Rice, which demand a particular season, a particular temp to grow. Nor does it ask for any celebration when it’s unearthed. So why are people biased in this wannabe unbiased world. Why doesn't the coy Aaloo get a makeover(GM food)?
One may protest that why am I being so loyal towards this vegetable. Well you can only appreciate its importance if he/she has been living in north India. With breakfast commencing with alu puri to brunch-Aaloo samosa and lunch-Aaloo curry,roti to supper-Aaloo bonda and off course dinner carries the clout of all the Aaloo -the so called DUM aaloo, roti. One seems to have a unprovocative response to this humble vegetable. The fight for adjourning it is lost somewhere in our inner conscious and inconspicuous respect for this potato. You can oppose and pretend as long as you want, but you cannot deny for the fact that one can only have such antipathy toward it, if you were once in the shape of aalu (:D).
Importance of aalu is not a news that I am conveying through a blog. It has been in talk through decades. I am sure you must have heard of “Jab tak rahega samose mein aalu tab tak rahega Bihar mein Lallu”. This is the kind of confidence people take in with Aalu and my sympathies’ with the latter. Aalu has been used unconsciously without people appreciating it. They know they cannot survive without it, but are just too egoistic to appreciate. You can still continue denying the fact, but decades later when you lay dead will then arise an Aalu from that very place, filled with your eternal hidden feelings for it.
