Kaivara

December 21, 2009

Went to Kaivara on sunday. It was a very good drive. There is a park near the ashram, and though it is quite beautiful, you can’t help feel bad for the very lonely ducks and peacocks there. The weather was heavenly and the trees and the hills and the farms looked their best. Beautiful place [...]

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le chef

November 30, 2009

I made cream of mushroom soup. The first time ever. Any soup. Though it became mushroom and carrot soup in the end. I decided to use carrot stock as I did not have any chicken broth. It looked more or less like cream of mushroom, but I cannot say it tasted as such.. ;P well, [...]

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Swamy

November 30, 2009

My nephew is going to Sabarimala this year, for the first time. As it is, he is putting his new-found divinity to good use. A friend of him threatened to rat him out to the teacher about one of those many primary school quarrels, and he told the kid. ” I am a Swamy, I [...]

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Agatha Christie

November 28, 2009

Have been reading Agatha Christie for the past week. And then some Sherlock Holmes. There is nothing I haven’t read and I still read Sherlock Holmes. And I did look into some Tarzan titles. What is going on? I am reading the books I loved as a child. Maybe trying to grow young or something. [...]

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The much maligned middle children.. :)

November 9, 2009

So, my mother and I are sitting at my sister’s kitchen table, and she is telling us about my nephew’s new school and new friends. That kid Madhav is alright, but you know he has all those bad traits. The middle children things. And we are both middle kids! Me and my mother, that is.

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The Worst Movie Ever?

October 22, 2009

I tried watching the movie ‘de ingottu nokkiye‘ yesterday. It promised to be bad from the start. Yet I tried watching thinking maybe there will be some good enough jokes/chali. I couldn’t watch. I just couldn’t watch. So as the story fiend that I am , I tried googling to see if there were any [...]

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Pancha Kanya

October 20, 2009

Ahalya Draupadi Kunti Tara Mandodari tatha Panca kanya smarennityam mahapataka nasanam I have always had a hearty chuckle and lifted my imaginary cap to the sage whenever I read these lines. None of them virgins, none of them monogamous, all of them women who had a mind(and body) of their own. I read these, I [...]

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