Srinagar, July 25 -- The state of our culture today is marked by a profound exchange: we have traded the holistic wisdom of our ancestors for fragmented, industrialized convenience. This choice has left us with a contamination that runs deeper than our food-it is a moral crisis, a contaminated conscience, born from willfully abandoning integrity for false prestige.

The contamination began subtly, within the spaces meant for nourishment and healing.

We recall a time when our cherished Wazwan was prepared with reverence; master cooks used natural dyes, like the home-grown herb "Muwaal," a testament to their respect for the diner's health. Today, that honour is gone. Those same chefs, under the pressure of speed and cost, often reach for p...