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People of Maheshwar
2007.12.08
Was it the boy or was it the goat?
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Was it the boy or was it the goat?
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This family made me eat a second breakfast. And it was one of the best breakfasts I would eat in India. There was a special brown dumpling bread (name forgotten for the moment)- first boiled, then roasted - and a sweet tomato--dahl soup. You are supposed to break the bread up and put it in the soup for eating. That was fine at this house but when I saw the same bread at a lunch restaurant a few days later and had to have some, I was not so happy about the man in the restaurant performing the same service.
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This family made me eat a second breakfast. And it was one of the best breakfasts I would eat in India. There was a special brown dumpling bread (name forgotten for the moment)- first boiled, then roasted - and a sweet tomato--dahl soup. You are supposed to break the bread up and put it in the soup for eating. That was fine at this house but when I saw the same bread at a lunch restaurant a few days later and had to have some, I was not so happy about the man in the restaurant performing the same service.
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Maheshwar is famous for its handloom weaving (amongst other things). Except the little boy, I met these weaving families and was possibly made so welcome by them in their homes because I happened to be wearing the scarf I had just bought from the handloom factory where they work.
Weavers are paid 75 rupees per day. This amounts to about AUD$2. Elsewhere i met women who earned only 30 rupees per day for their craft work. To earn even less is not at all uncommon either.
