The
journey of Rajasatta Express started in Uttarakhand six years ago as a weekly
newspaper. While playing a meaningful role, Rajasatta Express has reached its
reach in Uttar Pradesh. This web portal and web channel are trying to follow
the same path as any other media institution which is the demand of time.
My dear friends, rajsatta express if I were to ask
you, which part of your body you use to eat, what would you say? To be honest,
until quite recently, I would have considered this a stupid question. Which
other part of my body can I eat with if not my mouth?! Of course, I’m aware
that patients in hospitals sometimes need to be fed through a tube in a
nostril, or a needle in the arm. But those occasions are rare. For the most
part, we all eat only with
our mouths… don’t we?
And yet, as anyone who has ever watched a cooking
competition on TV, or posted a photograph of their
favourite dish on social media,
knows very well, before food ever passes into our mouths, we often devour it
first with our eyes. Isn’t
this why the home-cooks on Master Chef are judged not just on culinary
technique, but also on plating skills? Not just on how their food tastes, but
also on how it looks? And don’t we all know what it feels like to salivate at
the mere sight of a
delicious bowl of curry laksa, or chilli crab? All of which gives a whole new
meaning to the words, watching
what we eat!
Increasingly, perhaps now more than ever, people
are realising that we eat not just with our mouths, but also
with our eyes. Involving not just our sense of taste, but also our senses of
sight and smell, of touch and hearing as well. But if this is true of the food
that fills my belly, what about the kind that satisfies my soul? With which
part of myself do I eat spiritual food?
This, I believe, is the crucially important question that our Mass readings
invite us to ponder today
