The first thing one notices, stepping into Delhi’s Gadodia spice market is not the heaps of ground turmeric, or the bagfuls of jeera, or the mammoth mountains of red chillies, but rather the abundance of sneezing.
This otherworldly compound suffocates your lungs with spicy fire, which will have you sputtering and sternutating. And it wasn’t just us Westerners, by the sounds of it the guys who work tirelessly grinding and loading chillies here, also cough and sneeze all day long.
Jute bags weighing over 35 kg are then sold wholesale and transported all over Hindustan and beyond its borders, to fire up endless dishes and delicacies.
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