
Goya love: From India to Japan, a bitter gourd and taste of home
Karela is the crocodile-skinned vegetable nemesis of Indian children, but for one writer it has come to symbolise home.by Priyanka Borpujari31 Aug 2020
Priyanka's sixth birthday in Jorhat; in the evening, the family went to the market to buy a dress of her choice, before returning home to cut the cake [Photo courtesy of Priyanka Borpujari]
By the time I was 14, my family was visiting Jorhat annually during summer breaks - taking a 33-hour train ride from Bombay to Calcutta, then an overnight stay at the Broadway Hotel on Calcutta's Esplanade Street, followed by an Indian Airlines flight at noon to Assam's capital, Guwahati, 20 days at my mother's family home in Guwahati, and finally an eight-hour bus ride from Guwahati to Jorhat which included a 30-minute lunch break at the same hig...