From French fries to Chapathi and Dal..

Watching the French research student eating Chapathi, Dal and Vegetable in the institute's canteen was really delighting (the transition from french fries to Dal Chapathi must have been difficult for this girl but still). IFMR gets a lot of research students from universities all across the globe and it also houses the research wings of ICICI bank like CAFS (Center for Advanced Financial Studies) and CMFR (Center for Micro Finance and Research) both the institutes are at the cutting edge of research backed by ICICI's strategic vision. Presently around 10 PHD and research scholars from universities like Boston University, Columbia, Yale etc are undergoing their research projects here in our campus. At around 2 this scholar walked into the canteen who was perhaps not aware about the timings but then canteen people are nice enough and she found herself with a plate full of curd, dal, chapathi, Korma (a dry vegetable which is an assortment of many things like cabbage, peas, potato etc) and sambhar. I was watching her reactions but then she calmly took her seat and happily (without making a face) started eating the food and was enjoying it too as she didn't try to finish the food hastily or threw it away. I was surprised because sometimes even we can't stop making faces at the sight of the food (may be due to repetitive effect) and this foreigner who perhaps have never imagined about getting this kind of food is eating that happily. Well, something for us to learn and something for us to cherish both.