It is quite clear — and totally understandable — that the poor ganDerri or gaNNa (sugarcane) does not elicit the type of interest or reaction that, for example, aam (mango) does.
But let me stick with the topic just one more day. This is partly because I really like ganDerri at least as much as aam. Call me pedestrian or proletarian. A ganDerri is a poor man’s fruit, so it meshes well with my ideological leanings; more so than the more aristocratic aam. I think of the ganDeri as a’wonder fruit’: just throw water over it and it becomes juicier than it ever was!
But I am willing to respect your tastes, if you promise to do the same.
For now, however, I have a different quetsion from the one posed yesterday.
Can you guess where this picture was taken? Where is pehalwan saab selling his gannay ka rass (sugarcane juice)?
I realize this is not easy to guess unless you know the answer already or do some creative snooping on the Internet. So, let me just say that there are at least two hints imbedded right here. Maybe, someone can identify those too.
looking at the graffiti in the background, my guess is somewhere in North America. NY or Toronto.
Bravo, Aziz Sahib. Thanks for this wealth of information.
I am holding off on where this is until we get more ideas.
But on the other things, I will defer to your better knowledge on all. Now that you mention it, I realize ganna is not a ‘fruit’, but a grass… I guess that makes us ‘ghas charnay walley’, though I must also protest that calling a ganna a grass is ‘gannay ki touheen’ ;-)
But I must confess that – not withstanding the technical distinction – I had always thought of a ganDeri as a fruit; dunno about others.
The ‘cane sugar’ / ‘sugar cane’ was from Owais’s comment on earlier post, but I guess both of us stand corrected. Also see:
http://www.sucrose.com/lcane.html
I REALLY like ‘sugarcane nugget’… I think it is a worthy translation for a ganDeri ;-)
Dear all, the question of WHERE this picture is from, still stands.
Adil,
First of all, ganna is sugarcane (one word) both in Pakistan and the US. Cane sugar is the sugar made from sugarcane as opposed to beet sugar made from sugar beets.
Secondly, I am not sure if we can call ganderi a fruit. In fact, it’s not a fruit in any sense of the word. Sugarcane is technically a grass. Therefore, comparing aam with ganderi is like comparing apples with onions.
Thirdly, the man in the picture certainly looks like a Punjabi — from central Punjab or Potohar. The graffiti on the wall suggests a Desi neighborhood in U.K or US. But I doubt if you could import sugarcane in the US.
If you must translate ganderi into English then Sugarcane nuggets would probably be the closest.
I don’t know where this is, though Lahore is always a good guess for sugarcane juice.
Is the word ‘pehalwan’ one of the hints?
Like the kid with the shaved head in the foreground.
Not much of a fan of the ganderi.
I am guessing this is in Lahore. But really no idea why. Just and hunch.
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