Dal Foods of India

Mona Asoka Verma nee Pahlajani was born in Sukker of Sindh province, now in Pakistan, in 1940. It<br>was only after her marriage in 1964 in Mumbai that she started taking any interest in the kitchen. While<br>in Delhi with her husband, she attended cookery classes, and later, first in Kolkata and then in Mumbai<br>she set up her own successful cookery courses. At one point of time, nearly fifteen of her students ran<br>independent classes of their own.<br>Mona Asoka Verma has a flair for writing Hindi poetry and is a keen student of Indian classical music.<br>She is a social worker with many years being in the Lion’s movement in Mumbai as well as she was for<br>some time on the advisory board of Chembur Vidya Samiti, Mumbai, which is dedicated to the cause of<br>poor women.<br>Mona Asoka Verma has authored four cookery books and two Hindi poetry books, all well received.<br>Mona Asoka Verma is married to Asoka Verma, a senior company executive, now retired. They have<br>a son and a daughter and now live in Noida.