An Indian biker held as a spy for 24 days in Afghanistan by the Taliban, claims he was released by his captors after charming them with his Indian culinary skills.
Somen Debnath claims he was seized by the Taliban in the remote region of Heart, 85 miles from Kabul, while on a segment of a five-year bicycle ride through 33 countries to promote Aids awareness. He says he was kept blindfolded and strapped to a chair in a dungeon for weeks, during which he managed to convince his captors to allow him to cook for them. ''I cooked hot, spicy Indian food for them the way we have it in the Sunderbans in India," he says, which, so pleased them that, ''They were very happy and told my interpreter that I seemed to be a safe guy."
They say curry is good for the head and the heart, don't they?
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