Mission Delhi – Shyam Lal, Kaka Nagar Garden General Mission Delhi by The Delhi Walla - June 2, 2019June 2, 20190 One of the one percent in 13 million. [Text and photo by Mayank Austen Soofi] Gardener Shyam Lal, a fan of arhar dal, is thankful he’s getting wholesome meals. That wasn’t always the case. He’s now opened his lunch box here in a small public garden in Central Delhi's Kaka Nagar that he’s tended for some 40 years. “Today I’m getting rotis and aloo matar. But when I was growing up, a nutritious meal was pure luxury,” he recalls. His voice trails off as he savors the luncheon prepared by his daughter-in-law. But then Mr Lal resumes his verbal journey into times past. “We were very poor.” Growing up in a UP village, his mother was almost always obliged to cook a combination of lentils