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Yeh Dil Maange Chicken

21 March, 2008 by Amit Varma

The opening line of the day comes from Jug Suraiya:

Instead of the peacock, India should adopt the chicken as its national bird.

No dhaba in Delhi sells Tandoori Peacock, but that’s not the sense Suraiya means it in.

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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