The word "brinjal" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in any situation when referring to the vegetable commonly known as eggplant. For example: "I love adding brinjal to my curries because it gives them a delicious smokey flavor."
Waving placards and appetising images of aubergines, known in India as brinjal, they shouted themselves hoarse praising the transgenic vegetable.But most of these men, registered at the consultation as farmers, were in fact landless labourers with no aubergine experience.
Lynas currently advises the Bangladeshi government on trials it is conducting of Bt brinjal (eggplant), a crop that, despite several peer-reviewed approvals, was rejected by the environmental minister in India.
"I bought a book in Maharashtra that has 168 preparations of brinjal (eggplant) alone," he said.
He proudly shows us around the fields, where they grow rice, brinjal, gongura, onions, kohlrabi.
As you never just get one dish in Sri Lanka, we also had an aubergine and mustard pickle called brinjal moju, a cashew-nut curry, sambal and spiced rice, all washed down with an arak sour.
"As a staple crop, biotech brinjal could also benefit millions of Indian consumers, who would have improved product quality and greater choice in the marketplace".
While I had been brought up on packed lunches of throat-burning cheese and brinjal pickle sandwiches, but barely knew one end of a sausage from the other, we were a perfect dining pair.
"It is unfortunate that India's 1.4 million farmers will not yet be able to enjoy the benefits of biotech brinjal," said Denise Dewar of Croplife, the global industry association for plant biotechnology, which includes Monsanto among its members.
