Crafting Food, Crafting Senses

By Sonakshi Srivastava There is something about my mother’s hands. At once so mundane, at once so magical - they infuse life to the oft-quoted, almost quotidian, Hindi idiom haathon mein jaadoo hai (there is magic in your hands). I have often marvelled at the multiplicities of hands in general, and my mother’s in particular. Her hands, naturally, embody the essence of life to me. They contain the world, and open it up too - by appealing to the innate, the familial, the sensuous, her hands ar...