INTERVIEW

BY: DINIKA JAGGI

NAKUL CHHEDA
VARALLIKA GOEL
TWISHA FURIA
GRANDPARENTS
What would you eat when you were of our age or what was your
favorite food in your youth?
Their morning breakfast included milk and Indian bread (roti).
Their lunch comprised of dal, rice, vegetable (sabji) and Indian
bread. Their dinner was usually khichadi, kadi (a different type of
dal). Some of their favourite junk items which they consumed
were dhokla and handva and bhel.

What forms of exercise would you do?

In the morning, their daily routine started from 7 am. They walk
almost 3 km to and fro from school. This walking of 3 kms where
a part of our exercise. The other games which they played were
lagori, kho kho, cricket and hide and go seek. All these games
were their daily form of exercise.
 when you were young what kinds of junk food would you all eat?
My grandmother used to have paani puri, which is an Indian delicacy consisting
of fried puff pastry balls filled with spice mashed potato, spiced chilled water and
tamarind juice. Another dish she used to love having was ragda pattice, which is
made of a light stew of rehydrated dried white peas cooked with a variety of
spices and the pattice are made of mashed potatoes cakes. One the most
popular junk food items, according to my grandmother, is sev puri, which is
essentially made of crispy papdi, loaded with dice potatoes, chickpeas, onions
and various types of chutneys and then garnished with sev. The sev are
seasoned with various spices and flavours, such as raw mango, ginger, anise,
cumin, cloves and chaat masala
Grandfather: Feenya Ladoo: a sweet dish made out of sugar, wheat milk and
some spices like cardamom. Gud Papdi: a famous sweet dish from Gujrat made
using sugar, wheat and jaggery.
Bhel puri: An Indian dish of puffed rice, onions, spices, and hot chutney.
What is your opinion on the modern food items we eat now days?
The food is very tasty but it’s not very healthy and we also took some time to
adjust to their taste .
What kinds of games would you play when you were young?
• Grandmother: Chhuppa chuppi (hide and seek), pakda
pakdi (catch catch, a game similar to tag), snakes and
ladders at home and antakshari while travelling (The game
of the ending letter is a spoken parlor game played in India
and Pakistan. Each contestant sings the first verse of a
song (often Classical Hindustani or Bollywood songs) that
begins with the Hindustani consonant on which the
previous contestant's song selection ended.) Kho Kho (an
Indian game of tag played with two teams of twelve
people).
• Grandfather: playing with marbles, flying kites and spinning
tops.
PARENTS
 • Q. What was my favorite food?
• Ans. my favorite food during my youth were fruits. I loved
fruits, especially water fruits. My diet included milk, roti
(which a form of indian bread), sabji and a variety of juices.
My so called cheat meals were pani puri, sev puri and
samsosas.
• Q. What were the forms of exercises you did?
• Ans. i would start my exercises at 5.30 sharp in the morning.
i would practice 2 hours of yoga until 7.30 and then go for
walk with my friends. During college, i used to walk almost 5
kms to and fro college which would serve as a good
exercise. In school we had a period where we would do
some basic arm movement and leg strengthening training .
 Q. What games did you play when you were young?
in my school, i used to play hop scotch during the breaks.
Playing antakshari (a musical game) on sleepovers and
travelling had become like a tradition. Hide and seek, fugdi,
running races and catch hook ( a game similair to tag) were
some of the common ones i played with my building friends.
Q. What is my opinion on the modern food?
according to me, liking the modern food needs a developed
taste. Not everyone can adjust to the new variety of food
which has been going on. Fruits like dragon fruit, avocado,
wild watermelon etc. are something new itself but are very
healthy and needed for the development of the body however,
it doesnt always suit me. The junk food is definitely tempting
and unique. My most favorite modern food has been the
avocado.
 • Q. What were your favorite activities as a kid?
• Ans. When I was young I used to play pakdam pakdai (a
game where one person runs behind all others to catch
them) we did not have mobile phones so we used to play
games like hid and seek and race . There were many kids
so we played football and badminton too.