Powdered Sugar

Curd or yogurt is very useful for the body. Especially 'Khatta dahi', it helps digesion (The problem I have being a Bengali), it helps keep the body stable in terms of immunity and yes it also helps to cool the body during summers. I never had much of a fancy for it but yes I can have it.

The person who helped me gain all these knowledge about curd is my best half. I saw her since the very beginning of my association with her as a friend that she carried home made dahi in a small tiffin box with a pink lid everyday at office. And furthermore she had that with two pouches of cafe coffee day sugar! Calorie intake was a premium thing here. And yes she also offered me the same (Just me!). I declined all the time.

One day we were having lunch in the food court inside our office premises (four of us colleagues). Now she had to finish her office lunch that was a compulsion also she hated to waste food and her mother had made it all just for her early morning (Maa ke haath ke khane ka sentiment! I know!).

We had ordered host of things like chilli chicken rice bowl, chole bhature and others, yet she finished her lunch brought from home and the dug her hands into my chilli chicken rice bowl (She loves chicken). After having a perfect Chinese dish, out came the prodigal curd wala tiffin! But yes the cafe coffee day sugar pouches were missing! I knew she loved having it that way! What to do?

Priorities change you see. That time my first priority suddenly became to arrange for sugar!

I told her "Wait let me check at the Madras Coffee house, they might be able to help".

She said in her usual tone "Not required I will have it like this"

Yet I could sense her need for sugar that time. She could give the world to that person who gave her some (She did! read on).

I went to the coffee shop and got some sugar for her. But yes powdered sugar, that is used in coffee! But yes sugar is sugar be it in any form.

I could sense her body language and mood change once I got it. Yes it was not possible to have curd with powdered sugar yet she had it all the same and said softly 'Thank You'.

I replied "Thats not how it works. No sorry and no thank you"

Starting my next series of short tales. These are all small incidents that have left a mark in me yet you might find it meaningless. These tales will circulate around one character, a character which in my definition is one world for me - My best half.