For some, food is the language of hope and an attempt to keep holding on to a past one has had to leave behind&ndasha definition I learnt while sitting in an aptly named restaurant, Kabul Delhi, tucked in the narrow lanes of south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar.
This area was initially planned for, and allocated to, the refugees from Pakistan in 1947. A few decades later, a part of it (Lajpat Nagar 2) returned to square one&ndashtens of thousands of Afghans fled to India during the cold war, escaping Russia's tormenting invasion.