A cook, an Ice cream seller
Devprakash knows six languages including Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, English, Russian & Italian. His accent has a professional tone. He speaks sophisticatedly. Standing calmly before the exotic medieval architecture of Virupaksha Temple at Hampi, he awaits customer at his moving ice cream counter. He is wearing an orange Gamchha around his neck & a red shirt which is syncing with the red soil color of the region. A native of the nearby city of Hubli, he has now made Hampi a permanent home. He is still a bachelor while his parents keep living back at his native. On asked, "why didn't you marry?", he just nodded and smiled sheepishly. Perhaps, not all stories are easily spoken. DP has been a cook for 24 years of his life. He told me that he can cook many dishes including Italian, Mexican and ofcourse Indian. During Covid, many restaurants got closed and he got distracted from cooking. At the moment, he doesn't think much about going back to his earliar p