How can an aalu-anday dish solve the India-Pakistan crisis? This Pakistani video tells us all

Food is the oldest tool of international diplomacy.

But it is only after the Congress won the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan that Pakistan has been thinking that finally, India and Pakistan can be brought together at a table

On a lighter and delicious note, there’s aalu-anday on the menu.

The analogy is a little detailed and complex, but definitely worth a shot!

The results of the Assembly elections have greatly strengthened Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s claim for Prime Ministership next year. If the Congress wins the 2019 Lok Sabha outright, or the 'United Opposition' wants Rahul Gandhi to lead, he could become the next PM. And then, there will be food synergy between the two PMs of the neighbouring, oft-warring countries.

How?

Rahul's 'potato-gold machine' comment was an attack. But we thought it was real — and started making fun of it. (Photo: India Today)

Remember the clip showing Rahul Gandhi “envisioning” a factory turning potatoes into gold while he was addressing a rally in Gujarat?

Well, it was apparently an edited version and Rahul was reportedly attacking Modi and his way of “selling jumlas”. But the edited version of Rahul describing the potato-into-gold machine went so wild on social media that it has been unofficially attributed to him. Nothing can now redeem the joke.

Similarly, Pakistan PM Imran Khan was recently mocked when he placed his unique idea to eradicate poverty — give eggs and chickens to village women.

What's so funny? Imran Khan was serious when he proposed his Eggnomics. But we laughed at him too. (Photo: Reuters)

“The project has been tested and the government will provide injections to them for raising the chickens faster. This way they will have nutritious food for eating and more chickens and eggs to sell,” he said.

There must be something very funny in the way he said it that his speech opened a floodgate of jokes and memes on ‘Eggnomics’.

In his defence, a ‘hurt’ Imran Khan has actually proved how Bill Gates too had come up the same idea.

Now, both these issues are very serious as both the potato-gold machine and the ‘Eggnomics’ idea attempt to address the issue of poverty.

But what caught the fancy of Naya Daur, an initiative of progressive Pakistani citizens, is what we can cook while our leaders make various food faux pas.

Simple.

A Pakistani recipe of aalu-anday.

By laughing at everything, what we are missing out on is a plateful of aalu-anday, which can solve several problems. (Photo: Cookpad.com)

Take the ‘aalu’ from Rahul Gandhi, cook it at low heat (unlike that on the border) with a teaspoon of Coke Studio and 300 ml of the Shoaib-Sania love story. Take ‘egg’ from Imran Khan. Whisk it. When the potato is nearly done, pour the whisked egg in slowly and stir.

This is an important ingredient. You can't skip it. (Photo: India Today)

Now, the phrase 'aalu-anday' is not new to fame. It was a satirical rock song by a Lahore-based group, Beygairat Brigade, sung by Ali Aftab Saeed. The 2011 song mocked at a Pakistan which apparently forgot its Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam and instead became a seat for the likes of Ajmal Kasab — similar to the way we might not like to have simple and honest home-cooked aalu-anday and look instead for chicken.

So, when our leaders talk about 'injection-poultry farming', 'potato mining', 'pakoda economics', et al, we don't take them seriously and look for overnight poverty alleviation. 

But they are the visionaries we must believe in!

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