Summary:
The fully polished white rice that we get in the market is not the paddy rice our forefathers ate. This rice diversity block with 219 varieties is one of the many maintained by the Save Our Rice Campaign, working across six rice growing states to conserve and promote traditional rices. It is easier said than done, with all of us having become accustomed to fully polished white rice. We find the universal, unnamed, polished white rice quite bland, having got accustomed to the distinct flavours of these rices. Gandhasaale, my all time favourite rice, grown in the Western Ghats, known for its fragrance, reminds me of my father every time we cook it..