EVERYONE KNEW THAT when they invited Sujata Verma (name changed) home for dinner, they had to be extra careful with the menu. Vegetables had to be organic and seasonal. They had to be washed in an ozone vegetable cleaner and cut using knives that had been sterilised in boiling mineral water. There could be no fat, gluten, lactose, fructose, soy or sugar in the food. She insisted on only organic Himalayan rock salt on the table. There could be no cheating. Verma would make sure she was in the kitchen while the food was being prepared. Close friends and family tolerated this obsession with eating healthy. Her mother boasted to everyone in the neighbourhood how ‘body conscious’ and ‘aware’ Verma was. But colleagues and partners slowly started avoiding her. To them, in...Read More

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