If it is Coffee and Hot Chocolate weather at home, then outdoors – this is the season for Bhutta. Fashionably known as Corn on the Cob. It is one of the monsoon’s great attractions. Evening, ignoring the weatherman’s grim warning and the high tide lashing the coast, I will go down to the sea. And search along the rain-swept and wind-blown road for the Bhuttawala. He will be roasting corn on a sizzling brazier under a torn umbrella. I will find him by the aroma of the smoke.
I am not a let’s-get-wet-in-the-rain type. This doesn’t excite me anymore. You have to be a poet, a teenager, or in love to enjoy running about in the rain. Experience has taught me that this romantic misadventure can land you with congestion in the
chest, cold in the head, and an ache in the bones that will last for the rest of the rains. But for the Bhuttawala I will step out. I check the tenderness of his corn with my thumbnail, then have it roasted, brushed with lime, and sprinkled with chili powder. I could buy Bhutta at the grocer’s. Or one of those fancy gourmet stores. Some call it American Corn. Ears of freshly-plucked maize whose kernels are soft, juicy and protected by green husks. You can use it to make Sweet Corn Soup. I am not in favour of doing that. If all of us start making Sweet Corn Soup what will the neighborhood Chinese takeaway do! Also, roasting Bhutta at home on the gas is not the same as having Bhutta done outdoors on coal by one of the wet and windy seafronts. Home is for Coffee and hot buttered toast. Do you agree?
About Mark Manuel
The above thoughts/content has been proudly copied from the wall of Sir Mark Manuel. Being interviewing almost every role model of this country and going stronger each day. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer, and columnist.
With over three decades of journalism in leading publications. This includes the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is famous for his brilliant pen interviews. He himself is a TEDx speaker.
Further
His interviews have been featured in several leading media houses. They include the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC, and Network 18. Almost every famous person has been interviewed by him in the country from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali. His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! It is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime. And in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat.
Several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. Amitabh Bachchan wrote the forward in a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work.
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