I am at my sister’s house in Patna. Whenever I come to Patna, during periods when my college is closed for either summer or winter holidays, I mostly eat at home. There must be fine restaurants in town but these aren’t the places I knew in my youth; the food that I get at home here also reminds me of my mother’s dishes. Meena, who cooks for my sister, is an Adivasi woman from Netarhat in Jharkhand. She is a marvelous cook. This morning my sisters and I went walking…