*Someone on Twitter called Idli as ‘Steamed Regret’. Below is Shashi Tharoor’s reply for the same from a news article.*

*Someone on Twitter called Idli as ‘Steamed Regret’. Below is Shashi Tharoor’s reply for the same from a news article.* That remark prompted Tharoor to offer a poetic defence of the South Indian staple. “Poor soul has clearly never had a good one. A truly great Idli is a cloud, a whisper, a perfect dream of the perfectibility of human civilisation,” he wrote. He went on to add: “It’s a sublime creation, a delicate, weightless morsel of rice and lentil, steamed to an ethereal fluffiness that melts on the tongue. *With the right accompaniments, it is the culinary equivalent of a Beethoven symphony, a Tagore sangeet, a Husain painting, a Tendulkar century.* To call such a thing ‘regret’ is to have no soul, no palate, no appreciation for the finest achievements of South Indian culture. I can only feel pity for you.”