Pakistan and India have fought three wars and countless skirmishes, but as summers get hotter with climate change, their peoples are united by love for a cooling 115-year-old pink libation with a secret recipe. An ultra-sweet concoction of herbs and fruits, Rooh Afza – or "refresher of the soul" – not only survived the 1947 partition of the two countries but thrives on both
Pakistan and India have fought three wars and countless skirmishes, but as summers get hotter with climate change, their peoples are united by love for a cooling
Pakistan and India have fought three wars and countless skirmishes, but their people are united by love for a cooling 115-year-old pink libation with a secret recipe.
The ultra-sweet concoction of herbs and fruits, Rooh Afza which translates as “refresher of the soul” has not only survived the 1947 partition of the two countries, but thrived on both sides of the border.
On a furnace-hot recent day in Old Delhi, a formidable vendor named Firoza chops up in a metal cauldron an ice block delivered to her by motorbike down the tight alleyways.
She then stabs the top of a bottle