Adil Najam

Norman Borlaug, winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize and father of the ‘Green Revolution‘, including in Pakistan, died in Texas at age 95. Few in Pakistan have ever heard his name, but no one has had a deeper impact, for good as well as bad, on agriculture in Pakistan as we know it today than Dr. Norman Borlaug.

In reporting Dr. Borlaug’s death, Dallas News writes:

The Nobel committee honored Dr. Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives. “More than any other single person of his age, he has helped to provide bread for a hungry world,” Nobel Peace Prize committee chairman Aase Lionaes said in presenting the award to Dr. Borlaug. “We have made this choice in the hope that providing bread will also give the world peace.”

Owais Mughal

NOTE: Translation of all Urdu sentences is given at the end

I want to start this recipe’ with 7 time-tested words of wisdom. These words are tested by myself over a time period of two days, hence proved:

Ok, so after you’ve sinked-in this message, I want to announce that the omelet looking thing below is actually an extra-ordinarily delicious Fruit Custard. Any agnostics? Please read my 7 words written above again. Others, please continue reading below.

On our last grocery trip, I brought home a packet of Ahmed Custard Powder – Mango flavor. At home, I purposefully set the packet on kitchen counter. Why did I do that? Because if you put the packet in a closed cabinet then ‘aaNkh ojhal pahaaR ojhal’ happens.

S.A.J. Shirazi

Traveling on Grand Trunk Road all my life, it captured my imagination as a cultural curiosity when I read Rudyard Kipling’s Kim. At the beginning of the last century Kipling called it:

“a wonderful spectacle…. without crowding…. green-arched, shade-flecked … a river of life.”

But Pakistan’s National Highway Number 5 (N5), alias the Grand Trunk Road, or simply the GT Road, presents a different impression now.