A teenage Roald Dahl wrote in an essay, "as eating and drinking is a necessary duty, it is a duty to be enjoyed by all, and not to be regarded as the evil habit of those with gluttonous instincts." This is in stark contrast to the villains in his works, who crave for mashed-goose livers in doughnuts, children or a woeful diet restricted to cabbages. And although, like Dahl, we all share a strange relationship with food, this Saturday, a haiku event allows us to ponder over the same.

Dhrupad Karwa