DAHIBARA ALUDUM
DAHIBARA ALUDUM -AN EMOTION They say "Hyderabad aye aur biryani nahi khaya toh kya khaya" it's the same for Odisha also "Odisha aye aur Dahi bara nahi khaya toh kya khaya". Dahibara Aludum is a household name in all the Odia homes. Whether it is a sunny, rainy, or winter day you can find people eating it in every corner of the streets. I still remember our summer vacations were all about having Dahi bara aludum for breakfast for most of the days and the Dahi bara aludum will be not homemade but a person coming on a cycle with two big brass containers and a small one which had ghuguni or as we say white chickpeas curry or safed chana sabji and letting us know "dekho mai aagaya" with his banging of the brass container. I have been very lazy or in other words a morning sleeping person my whole life but at this time of the day as the sound of the Dahi bara person coming would be heard I and my sister would run to the courtyard and would be waiting for...