During the recent Gujarat election campaign BJP President Amit Shah said Rahul Gandhi must take off his Italian glasses to properly see Gujarat’s development. But in Ahmedabad’s Manek Chowk, chocolate pizza is Gujarat’s only Italian connection. Rahul Gandhi has a Gujarati connection too. His grandfather Feroze Gandhi’s family roots lie in the south Gujarat city of Bharuch, famous for its spicy peanuts. But then politics has always been peanuts for Gujaratis for whom the pursuit of taste is more important than the pursuit of power and ‘jamavanu’ or the act of eating is elevated to a fine art. Many Gujaratis live by the motto, “Surat nu jaman Read More
