Sumitra And Anees : Tales and Recipes From a Khichdi Family (Book Review)

 📍 The author has tried very hard to make us understand that it needs to be okay to marry inter religion, I agreed on that part with her. 

📍 She is telling us about it because she herself is the product of an inter-faith marriage. 

📍 In the start the author blamed the government for a few things and some laws. Then she said that there should be more stories out there like Sumitra and Anees. But I later I saw that the author herself didn't tell much of a story of Sumitra and Anees. She told us the story like, they met, they became friends, they got married, they shifted to Anees's house. Then it was like Sumitra worked as a director for NIFT. She wrote a few books. Anees worked as a journalist and he wrote few books as well, one on Zakir Hussain, one on Bhopal gas tragedy. 

📍 She many times said that it's become more dangerous than before, and then she was telling a story where his father Anees was bringing someone with him on a tonga and some hotheads stopped that person to check on as he was a Muslim so the hotheads think he was someone else. 

📍 Then she presented the recipes shared by her mother in the book. 

📍 I liked how she wants there to be more inter - religion marriages. She doesn't want anyone to break their relationship because they have different faith. But the other things, the story, the politics behind it, I didn't like it. 

📍 I didn't like the narration of the story. It was just going anywhere. If you want more stories like Sumitra and Anees then you should first try to tell their story not the politics or something else. 

📍 The language was lucid, so anyone can give it a try. The book is a small one, you can easily finish it in a day. You can find some recipes here as well, of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes.