Kashmir Wazwan
A Bollywood producer, currently in Srinagar, triggered a controversy by claiming that he has introduced veg-Wazwaan. He was trolled for naming a typical thali, a wazwan, otherwise a complete non-veg course. This led a learned man to attempt a brief introduction to the key Kashmir cuisine using medieval chronicles as the source
Bollywood director and right-wing activist, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri along with his team having food in Kashmir . Pic: Twitter
In terms of its culinary heritage, Kashmir can rightly say to be a
jannat for the food enthusiast.
Wazwan defines the Kashmiri love for food, and for those who love mutton, it is a feast that you need to relish. But, then like so many practices and customs in our society,
Kashmiris will not stomach any hanky-panky with their cherished spread, the wazwan, a BJP-friendly Bollywood director has learnt the hard way.
Vivek Agnihotri, visiting the Valley for the shoot of a film on Kashmiri Pandits, had on Thursday introduced Twitterverse to what he called “vegetarian wazwan” with an apparent threat to change Kashmiris’ food habits.
For many Kashmiris, “vegetarian wazwan” sounded like “cultural invasion”.
Wazwan, a multi-course spread, is all about meat, so much so that the vegetable dishes that are part of it are immersed in mutton gravy before being served to guests. In Kashmir, people from all faiths Muslims, Pandits and Sikhs relish the wazwan.