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Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

Dec 30, 2023 • 33 tweets • 20 min read • Read on X

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This is a long thread on the #restaurants I have eaten in 2023. This covers #Mumbai, #Delhi and #Pune.

#Food #food #MumbaiFood #Pune #PuneFood #Mumbai #Delhi #DelhiFood #eatingout #khaugiri #khawayya #hotel #hotels #foodscene

Hotel Gomantak Yashwantashram:

No frills joint located bang outside the Grant Road (West) railway station. Good place for coastal food

Moti Mahal Restaurant, Dariyaganj, New Delhi

The place where butter chicken is said to have originated. The butter chicken you get here is different from the 'tandoori chicken shreds served in oily gravy' stuff that is served elsewhere. Try the brain curry and kababs too...

Must visit

After eating at Moti Mahal, top it up with desserts from Cool Point Shahi Tukda across the road. Try the shahi tukda and kheer

#NewDelhi #OleDelhi #Delhi #Food #desserts

And then, end with paan at the shop next-door...

#Delhi #NewDelhi #OldDelhi #Food #DelhiFood #eatingout

Firoz Farsan Mart, Husainiya Marg, Bhendi Bazaar, Mumbai serves a unique biryani--one that is made with alu Vadi aka Patra (colocasia rolls). Must visit restaurant.

#Mumbai #food #MumbaiFood #eatingout #eatingoutinMumbai #Food

Then, pot ice cream at Taj Ice Cream at Bohri Mohalla, Bhendi Bazaar, next door. They have been around since 1887!

#icecream #desserts #Mumbai #eatingout #Food #MumbaiFood #khaugiri

Kwality, Connaught Place, New Delhi for its kababs, biryani, tooti frooti ice cream. Need I say more? Thank me later.

#Delhi #NewDelhi #OldDelhi #Food #DelhiFood #eatingout

Ghalib Kabab Corner, behind Markazi Masjid, near the dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in New Delhi. Best kababs. Again, thank me later.

#Delhi #NewDelhi #OldDelhi #Food #DelhiFood #eatingout

Back to Mumbai. Biryani, bheja fry, kheema etc with their delectable green chutney. Keep thanking me for this.

Olympia Coffe House at Colaba Causeway, Mumbai.

#Mumbai #eatingout #Food #food #khauguri #khawayya

Parsi style food at Cafe Universal, Shahid Bhagat Singh road, Fort, Mumbai. Old style charm combined with the taste of Patra ni Macchi, Parsi style Bombi, Dhansak etc...

Jamva Chalo Ji!

#Food #Mumbai #food #eatingout #MumbaiFood #Parsi #ParsiFood #Gujarati #Marathi

Samosa chole, patice, dal pakwan etc at Punjabi MotiHalwai, Cawasji Patel Street, Fort, Mumbai

#Mumbai #food #eatingout #Food #PunjabiFood #SindhiFood #khaugiri #khawayya

Kababs at this very hole-in-the-wall stall at Acharya Atre Chowk, Worli Naka, Mumbai

#Mumbai #food #eatingout #Food #khaugiri #khawayya #Mughlai #kababs

Bara Handi at Surti Bara Handi, Nagdevi street, opposite Crawford market in Mumbai

#Mumbai #food #eatingout #MumbaiFood #Food #khaugiri #khawayya

And one of my all-time favourites. Buffet at Gulatis, Pandara Road, New Delhi

#Food #food #Delhi #NewDelhi #eatingout #khaugiri #khawayya #DelhiFood

Omelette at Gaylord Restaurant, Churchgate, Mumbai. Frankly speaking, this was a bit of a disappointment

#Mumbai #food #eatingout #MumbaiFood #Food #khaugiri #khawayya

Oota at Mysore Cafe, South Avenue in New Delhi. Food for the soul after hours of reading at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) nearby.

#Delhi #food #eatingout #DelhiFood #Food #khaugiri #khawayya #Dilli #NewDelhi

Cutlets, puffs, rolls, biscuits etc at Sassanian bakery, near Metro cinema, Mumbai.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Seekh kababs at Nawab Seekh Kabab, Do Taaki, off Muhammad Ali road in South Mumbai.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Cafe New York, Near Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Grant Road West..

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Qureshi for kababs at Nagdevi street, opposite Crawford market in Mumbai

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Bisibele bhaat, idli and vada sambhar, filter coffee at Poornima in Fort, Mumbai.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Topped up with paan from Volga Paan house nearby. This paan stall is named after a now-defunct restaurant next door, has little to do with the river in Russia.

#FoodSecurity #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Parsi style bhonu at Jimmy Boy, Horniman Circle, Fort, Mumbai. Mutton Dhansak etc

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood #Parsi #ParsiFood #Marathi #Gujarati

Tandoori Misal at the House of Misal, next to Plaza cinema, Dadar West, Mumbai

#misal #Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood #Marathi #MarathiFood #snacks #MaharashtrianFood

Maasli Saraswat and GSB Speciality, Worli, Mumbai. Must visit for their unique Saraswat cuisine. Try the Kulith soup, khubbe vade, mutton and fish thalis, gulalacha kharwas etc. Satisfaction and contentment guaranteed.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood #Marathi #MarathiFood

Anand Restaurant, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Visited for their dhaba style food, but ended up being disappointed due to lack of hygiene and taste.

#Delhi #NewDelhi #Food #food #DelhiFood #eatingout #khaugiri #khawayya

Tambe Upahar Gruha outside Dadar Station West for its batata Vada, misal etc.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood #Marathi #MarathiFood #Maharashtrian #MaharashtrianFood

Lassi at Kailash, outside Dadar station East

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Since Saravana Bhavan T Connaught Place in New Delhi was crowded, we walked into Sagar Ratna Restaurant next door and thumped our backs for that choice.

#Delhi #NewDelhi #food #Food #DelhiFood #eatingout #khaugiri #khawayya

Merwans at Grant Road station East for its legendary mava cakes.

#Food #eatingout #food #Mumbai #khauguri #khawayya #MumbaiFood

Akka Masoor at Shivraj Dhaba in Karad, Satara district.

#Food #food #Satara #eatingout #MarathiFood #Marathi #MaharashtrianFood #Maharashtrian

Superb #MaharashtrianFood at Nav Mejwani, opp Amar Hind Mandal in Dadar West.

#Mumbai #Food #food #eatingout #MumbaiFood #Marathi #khaugiri #khawayya

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Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

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Sep 28, 2023

The outrage over the refusal of a Gujarati-dominated housing society to allow a #Maharashtrian woman to rent an apartment/ office at Mulund in #Mumbai is not the first such instance of housing apartheid directed at #Marathi speakers in their own capital. The roots of this discrimination run deep in #history.

Some political activists got together and ensured that the father-son duo in the Mulund society apologised to the woman. But soon, it will be back to business for them. At least, until the next outrage…

Even today, there is no clarity over whether that silly "rule" which was cited as the basis for the denial has been rolled back.

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#Marathi #Maharashtra #MarathiIdentity #Marathipan

One must note that while the liberal intelligentsia is quick on its feet to denounce any expression of nativist, pro-Marathi sentiment in Mumbai, they often ignore similar regional and linguistic chauvinism, sub-nationalism and xenophobia in their own states. They also fail to acknowledge that opportunities are often secured through networks linked to caste, linguistic and regional identities with merit per se taking a back seat.

#Mumbai was a part of #Maharashtra in the geographical, historical, and socio-cultural sense. #Marathi speaking groups like the Agaris, Kolis, Bhandaris, Pathare Prabhus, Pachkalashis etc populated the clutch of islands that make today's Mumbai. These indigenous residents had to eventually pay the highest price for Mumbai's 'development.'

Marathi merchant princes and entrepreneurs like Rama Kamat Lotlikar and Jagannath 'Nana' Shankarseth Murkute, and the middle and labour class have built Mumbai brick by brick over the centuries and so have people like Nagu Sayachi and Raosaheb Papanna, who spoke Telugu but were culturally Maharashtrians. Economic migrants from other states came here later because they saw opportunities here and because they felt Mumbai was the mythical El Dorado, the city of gold.

Anyone denying this reality are living under a rock, or perhaps, they are THE rock.

The Samyukta Maharashtra movement had to fight tooth and nail to ensure that Mumbai was retained as part of Maharashtra and was not hived out as a union territory or merged with Gujarat as big money and capitalists wanted it to. The point to be noted is that the leaders and foot-soldiers of Samyukta Maharashtra also included the Telugu-speaking working class and journalists and activists like Va. Ra. Kothari, a Jain, who were Maharashtrians by conviction and belief. Maharashtra secured Mumbai on 1 May 1960 after the martyrdom of 106 people. Those who wanted to usurp Mumbai by hook or crook have certainly not forgotten this "slight!"

Mumbai had a strong working-class movement. This was broken down after mill owners, politicians, bureaucrats, builders, and the underworld colluded to sell off lands on which the textile mills stood. This was a barbaric case of dispossession. The mills were syncretic spaces and supported a strong manufacturing ecosystem. This was broken down. The communal strife in Mumbai during the 1990s owes much to this. The same story repeated itself when it came to the engineering units.

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Malabar Hill is the most prestigious & well-guarded neighbourhood in Mumbai. It houses ministers, bureaucrats & the elite. The Raj Bhavan is also located here. In the 1970s, there was a robbery in Raj Bhavan, that too from the Governor's bedroom! #thread #MumbaiPolice #history

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The latest episode of #Maharashtra’s Game of Thrones saw #AjitPawar split the #NCP & become the deputy chief minister. Let us analyse the impact on the major players in the game
#SharadPawar #MaharashtraPolitics #NCPSplits #politics #BJP #ShivSena #DevendraFadnavis #EknathShinde

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The ruling coalition in Maharashtra is now dealing with a problem of plenty. It now includes three parties, the #BJP, chief minister #EknathShinde’s #ShivSena, and now #AjitPawar and his men from the #NCP.

Ajit Pawar’s defection comes as a setback to Shinde as now, the BJP has a more dependable ally in Maharashtra. This has significantly reduced the elbow space available to Shinde.

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#Hindutva zealots like #SambhajiBhide claim that #MahatmaGandhi's last fast in January 1948 was meant to force India to pay #Rs55crore to #Pakistan. It is also claimed that Gandhi indulged in #Muslim appeasement, but what is the reality?
#thread #history #Gandhi #NathuramGodse

The fast was a moral form of protest to ensure communal amity and cessation of hostilities between Hindus and Muslims in India. Gandhi also wanted to ensure the safety of the Hindu and Sikh minorities in Pakistan.

Gandhi planned to ensure that the Hindu and Sikh refugees in India went back to their homes in Pakistan, just as he wanted India’s Muslims to stay back in this country.

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Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

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Heard #SambhajiBhide's unhinged rant against #MahatmaGandhi & #MahatmaJotibaPhule. Bhide claims that Gandhi and Phule were anti #Hindu & were given the 'Mahatma' title by the Christ Seva Sangh from Sweden. This thread is meant to set the record straight
#history

It was in a function on 11 May 1888 in the Koliwada hall at Mandvi in #Mumbai that the masses conferred the 'Mahatma' title on #Phule to honour him for his selfless service.
#JotiraoPhule

It was in 1910, the year of his assassin #NathuramGodse's birth that #Gandhi was first referred to as a 'Mahatma' by his friend Pranjivan Mehta in a letter to Gandhi's guru Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

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So, Anish Chandy @LabyrinthAgency was in town and @jitendradixit & yours truly took him for a #Maharashtrian dinner at Nav Mejwani in Dadar West, #Mumbai. It is opposite Amar Hind Mandal.
#Food #FoodTwitter #Marathifood #MaharashtrianFood #Maharashtra

We began with Prawn crackers & Aloo wadi

4.5/5

Then, moved on to Jawla (small dried prawns)

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