I have been travelling between Trivandrum and Bangalore every month from July mostly by Volvo buses, mostly, private-run, lately by the Karnataka State Transport Corporation.
The biggest problem I faced during my travel is food. the wayside restaurants that these buses stop for food are very expensive. I would have willingly paid had the food been good.
So on my return journey from Trivandrum I now insist my wife or mom to pack me dinner.
Oh! The aroma of home made rice, vegetable dishes and fish curry wrapped in a banana leaf is mouth water!
It packs in more than that.
It takes you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane. All these days when Amma packed lunches for you when you set out to school in the morning. When she packed lunch and dinner when you took a bus out on a school excursions; When you travelled to New Delhi in search of a career in a newspaper office in the early 1990s. And the dinner she packed when you shifted to Madras that is Chennai, later.
For each of us born and brought up in Kerala that pack of food brings back in a rush a train of memories.
You among readers who have not tasted it should try it at least once. The aroma is something unique!
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