Further, I happened to overhear that the child wanted to buy an Amar Chitra Katha titled, ‘Valmiki’s Ramayana’ from the book section adjacent the coffee shop. But the father wanted him to pick up ‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens. That was the cause of admonishment! I was stunned!
A man in Alibag, India killed his mother after she served him dinner late. He assaulted her with a stick, a sickle, and set her on fire. He has been arrested and charged with murder.
A few months earlier, the “Bombay Chronicle” had reported that certain European restaurants serving Italian dishes were using marigold or calendula petals instead of saffron since the import of saffron from Spain had been hampered owing to the Second World War