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Dalai Lama
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Women a Weakling?
“Do you talk very often to your wife”, asked Arun (name changed), my friend from childhood days. Before I could have told him about the frequency of calls to my just married wife who I have left back in India to work in Sheikh-land (read Dubai), he added, ”I hope you don’t reveal everything to her. … Read more
Tagging Business
On Email, you get forwards – Send this or that to 10 people or you will get unlucky (as if you were very lucky otherwise). On Facebook, you get notification that you have received fruits from a friend’s farm on Farmville (most of these friends haven’t ever been to a village) On Blogs, you get … Read more
Tamatar ki Teekhi Chutney (Tomato Chutney)
I am missing home and I am missing home made food. As I was going through several food blogs, I suddenly remembered a teekhi tomato chutney that my mother used to prepare. It goes best with aloo-paratha or sattu-paratha (litti), but you can also have it with dal-chawal. Here’s the recipe if you would like … Read more
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,100 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to … Read more
Dreams and Realities
Long ago when I was a small boy, but big enough to know that to pee you have to go to the washroom, I would soil the bed sometimes. And when Ma discovered the wet bed the next morning, she would scold me saying, Aditya you have grown so old and you still pee on … Read more
The case of mistaken identities
No one had yet come to claim the lower berth. The TTE said that the occupant was to get aboard the train at Gaya. Until he came, I decided to occupy the window seat and do some sightseeing. As the train stopped at Dhanbad I got nostalgic. For years this was where we caught trains … Read more
Nostalgic smells of Deepawali
We bought a gun for my nephew this Deepawali. In our times this gun used to be made of tin. Small rolls of a bindi shaped cracker served as the bullets. You just needed to pull the trigger and dhoom. I was loving the smell. It brought back memories of times when we used to … Read more
To kill or not to kill (a mosquito)
(At least three mosquitoes have been killed in the process of writing this post) My relationship with God is very much like my relationship with neighbours – I don’t deny their presence; my hands automatically move for the incense stick after bath, like they join to say namaste whenever I cross paths with my neighbours; … Read more
