A work of historical non-fiction, in which the author examines the history and the folklore and legends that surround the once important princely state of Bahawalpur, which became part of Pakistan after the Partition.
Picnic Crumbs is a collection of stories, from all sorts of people over several centuries, of food produced or eaten in a way that may, even when it is a banquet, just about be defined as a picnic. Writers, travellers and gastronomes of all persuasions describe picnics past, present, perfect and imperfect, in this delightfully eclectic anthology