Markings Publishing are proud to present their sixth title, bringing together the rich flavours of the sub-continent with Zaiqay Frontier Ke – Dera Ismail Khan Kae Bhulay Basray Pakwan, translated as Flavours of the Frontier – Forgotten Recipes from Dera Ismail Khan.
Written by the late Pushpa Kumari Bagai, the book is a collection of Bagai’s coveted recipes with an introduction by her daughter Dr Anjali Malik, a professor of history at the Delhi University. Indeed, Bagai was the custodian and exponent of a very special culinary tradition; the vegetarian cuisine of the Hindu Pathans of Dera Ismail Khan – a tradition, which survived the horrors and rigours of the Indo-Pak Partition, when families such as Bagai’s were uprooted overnight from DI Khan to Delhi, forced to leave behind a life of privilege and pleasure. It was through Bagai’s preservation of the dietary customs of DI Khan’s Hindu Pathans in Delhi, that many families within her community were provided with a nostalgic comfort through cuisine that helped preserve their sense of identity. Zaiqay Frontier Ke – Dera Ismail Khan Ke Bhulay Basray Pakwan is in essence a cross-border and cross-cultural initiative, being jointly printed in Lahore and Lucknow, with its Hindi-Urdu translation undertaken by Abbas Sial, a Derawal currently residing in Sydney, Australia. It is being released in both India and Pakistan simultaneously this February 2014. Further, in India, the book is being introduced by iconic media personality Vinod Dua whose family also hails from Dera Ismail Khan.
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