These days, it feels like even what we eat, where its sold, and who cooks it for us needs permission slips. Forget regulation, this is food policing, where new powers decide where the samosas will be fried without “hurting someone’s sentiments.”
Religious processions in cities and the Kanwar Yatra like mega events, have become soft targets. Suddenly, the routes turn into no-go zones for certain shops. Not by law, but by new norms. And behind this moral outrage? A silent business model of Extortion, control, “protection money” all flowing under the radar, often with possible wink-wink support from behind the scene powers.
When who sells food becomes become a new normal, it’s no longer a street economy. It’s organized bullying in the food world.
