Nish Kumar

She also learnt to read and write Hindi in school and English.

Then she learned Tamil.

And then when she moved to Kenya, she learned Swahili.

And then she also learned Gujarati because all the Indians in, a lot of the Indians were not South Indian.

And she sort of, her and my grandfather kind of just picked up Gujarati by being sort of immersed in it.

I can speak English fine.

But I can also, I can understand Malia because she refused, even though she could, she refused to speak to me in English when I was growing up.

To make sure that I had some understanding of it.

But like when I speak it, it's very bad because it's, my accent is very poor.

It's a bit.

Thank you.

It's a Croydon accent.

But I can understand it.

Thank you.

But yeah, she had a real aptitude for languages and her cooking was unreal.

And even when she was like...

much older and unwell.

She would sort of make fish cutlets for me, like Indian fish cutlets.

And she also used to fry sardines.

So she'd get sardines and fry them in chili powder and turmeric, like quite shallow oil.