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Why is Sunday lunch a headache for young Khadeer? An excerpt from Head Curry by Mohammed Khadeer Babu, translated from the Telugu by A Suneetha.

My father cannot eat a meal without meat.

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Even if my mother cooks meat six days and six nights in a week and makes vegetable for just one meal he makes a face, pushes the rice around in the plate, shoves the plate towards my mother and refuses to touch the food.

That is because my father was born in a coastal village in Ongole district. He was born to my grandfather who exported fish to Madras by sea. Right