���Tell him ‘Baba ka paani hai’,” the elder of the four boys in the baoli (step-well) quipped mischievously when his friend walked, dripping wet, up the steps of the 13th century step-well in Delhi’s Nizamuddin basti. He was full of how water had splashed into the bowl of khichdi their other friend was eating while still in the water. Hungry from all the diving and splashing about in the noon hour, the khichdi passed around was appetising enoug