Last month, one morning I woke up with an intuition that a college friend, Rajat would be visiting Jaipur. He currently lives in America and it had been a long time since I had heard from him. Excitedly, I rushed an email to him that I am in Jaipur currently and I heard that he is coming here, and it would be nice if he came and stayed with me this time instead of a hotel where he usually stays during his many travels around the world. It would be an opportunity to catch up. A reply came that he was indeed coming to India in early April but not to Jaipur. Then few days later another excited email arrived from him, Dear Ashok, thank you for wishing me luck. You are not only wise but possess some special powers because of meditating and being a yogi. A good evidence of that is I am coming to Jaipur for a book event on the 6th of April. Initially Jaipur was not on my schedule but magically it is now happening. Love to invite you to the function and call ch up (read c
let your food be your medicine, Hippocrates, father of medicine Universal Food Cabbage and Carrots, Wheat and Potatoes, Eggs and Milk by Professor Ashok Malhotra —- —-+ INTRODUCTION As a scientist and professor, i travelled across the world. Due to a queasy stomach that did not tolerate most foods available in restaurants and hotels, i had to depend on my own cooking. Sadly this when the food was paid for too. Perhaps one of these moments, was in the summer of 1976, I was then a doctoral student at UBC in Vancouver. Some of the research work that was already conplete was sent for publication to the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer centered arounf Imperial College London and Chaired by Professor D. B. Spalding. He liked my work and accepted the paper for presentation at Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Entire expenses of the trip were paid for by the University. Now yogislavis being twonthirds of the way from India, my professor suggested, ‘Ashok, you been missing home.