date:Sep 18, 2012
Sheikh Abdul Qader is not an easy man to miss. For one, he runs the most famous jigarthanda store in Madurai, the rather immodestly (if obviously) named Famous Jigarthanda. Secondly, when this affable 50-year-old smiles, as he is wont to whenever he speaks, he reveals a mouth only partially filled with teeth, which are all on the left side. I am a sugar patient, he says, trying to explain away the gaping hole on the right. But listen to his story, and you may arrive at a different conclusion. Qa