CookingFrom a Delhi clinic to iftar tables in three countries: 120 years of Rooh Afza
Rooh Afza, the rose-scented sharbat that grew out of the Unani physician Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed's Hamdard Dawakhana in old Delhi, founded in 1906, survived Partition to become a Ramadan staple in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A March 2026 look at its history, a supply crisis and its court cases.

