Brown Motion

 I am 50 not out.  Five decades of living on this planet. In the course of this life I have gone through the natural aging process, starting as an infant, then toddler, then adolescent and young man, a single man to quite early tying the knot with who was to be my wife of over half that life to date. In doing so I took many trips.  Journeys.  First within the sub-continent that was India, my birthplace and then post nuptials a trip that took us to the United States of America. India is a vast country and our parents (the wife's family and mine) were both fond of taking the kids to new lands and places and check out what made it unique than our usual workaday place of residence. This adventurous spirit saw us visiting the western deserts of Rajasthan to the tea growing hill stations of Ooty in the south.  Later with my wife and kid we would go and see the Taj in Agra and the capital city Delhi. All this early traveling was on the Indian Railways.  No flying for us.  Could not afford

 This is not about a cheesy cartoon movie or a daytime soap.  This is my breakfast we are talking. Marie is a wheat /semolina based biscuit.  Khari is a filo dough fried in ghee edible that looks like the picture on the right. Both are dunk worthy items to be dunked in a hot cup of masala Chaha or Chai or tea. I grew up with this in erstwhile Bombay as a staple morning go to snack. What Wheaties or Corn Flakes may be to America few biscuits and tea are to many an Indian or an ex pat to this day.  A legacy partly of British making with the introduction of biscuits. Americans do not know about biscuits.  To them a biscuit is a southern delicacy, a sort of dense bread, flaky if made right and had with butter at dinner.  Not so in India.  A biscuit is a cookie equivalent if that in the sense of its ingredient list. But American cookies tend to be usually inserted with chocolate pieces, or a nut like pecan, etc. And they are bit too sweet for my taste.  A biscuit on the other hand (British