Later, they dished out steaming plates of daal and chapatis to the 60-strong congregation.

They manage with very little, living on rice and daal.

In fact the bulk of our duties, the rice and daal of departmental activities, was concerned with geographical and ethnological information.

After one week at the shelter, she began to eat tiny slivers of rice chapatti cooked by Husna Khokhar, and a mouthful of daal.

While no one station excelled in every area, Grand Central came closest, said Vernon Daal, an Urban Regeneration Strategist with Arcadis.