Bengal’s ‘egg war’ and what the idea of sattvik food really means

A boiled egg has become a flashpoint in West Bengal. A move to revise some school mid-day-meal menus toward “sattvik” fare — with eggs taken off the plate — has been hailed by some as a return to tradition and condemned by others as imposed vegetarianism. The coinage now doing the rounds, “Dimocracy” (from dim, the Bengali word for egg), captures the heat of the moment.

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