The first thing that comes to your mind when you think of
Gujarat is alcohol, or rather the absence of it. That, along with the
dominantly vegetarian diet, meant that it was never a preferred travel
destination for a meat loving geologists like us. In a beach of Gujarat I once
had the audacity to ask a local person where I can find sea-food. The gentleman
stared at me and my wife in not so gentle way and responded ‘I am a Jain’, and went away....
