Put the fork on the right side.

The fork as a tool for devouring meals is hardly an Indian implement. You don't require a three pronged fork to properly eat any staple Indian food. Inspite of this we all as a race have indeed been benevolent to the fork and now any excursion to any restaurant, irrespective of the cuisine it serves or professes to, brings us to a well laid table with the cutlery essentially loaded with knives and forks .

Laying the table is one thing and using those items another. To my bewilderment I have discovered that the people actually use forks to eat traditional Indian dishes. More over, South Indian food is now looked upon as something which cannot be consumed without a knife to cut the the Dosa and a fork to poke into the Idli. I always find myself at a loss when it comes to eating south Indian food with forks and knives. Having said that , dosas and idlis still can be comfortably eaten with forks and all but would somebody care to tell me as to how can anyone possibly eat those deep fried paranthas from Punjab with forks. But I have seen people do that. I mean even the fork would be wondering that for what unearthly purposes am I being put into use. Why should a fork be used to eat paranthas. There is nothing wrong or right about having Indian food with western implements but then should we also bring table manners into this.

All said and done , does all this even matter when we look at the bigger picture. The moral of the story is that while eating put the fork on the right side, i.e. the left side which is the right side.