Dal Foods of India - Paperbackby Mona Ashoka Verma (Author) Mona Asoka Verma nee Pahlajani was born in Sukker of Sindh province, now in Pakistan, in 1940. It was only after her marriage in 1964 in Mumbai that she started taking any interest in the kitchen. While in Delhi with her husband, she attended cookery classes, and later, first in Kolkata and then in Mumbai she set up her own successful cookery courses. At one point of time, nearly fifteen of her students ran independent