Thursday, 8 January 2009
A Real Life Tale of Horror
The said ritual entailed feeding the entire village and thus Meena had to borrow twelve thousand rupees at the rate of 6% a month or 72% a year. The split moment decision had made her indebted...
The transition
Achamma is not alone. There are many menial workers like her who have severed their ties with Kerala and parasitic relations after the initial enthusiasm to help out family and relations. And the reason is watching their hard earned money making people take things easy and leading to increasing irresponsibility...
Sunday, 4 January 2009
Resolution for 2009: Be the Change in your Community
They sympathised with the victims in Bombay. And they pledged to be more active in the public. 'Make use of us! We are ready to contribute!' That voice, that of a young woman rings in my mind though it bounced off my TV set that Sunday morning.
Sr. Abhaya Case: Sex and the CBI, a detective story gone awry?
Granting the accused bail, the Kerala High Court came out with scathing criticism of the way the latest team of sleuths (there had been a few earlier) of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is handling the case...
New Years, on making sense of
We like to usher in the new year every year. We are deeply paranoid that the new year might just lose its way and wander off into another century and then, where would you be?
Wish you a Happy 2009
On this first day of 2009, I wish you, and all near and dear to you, lots of happiness and prosperity in the new year. May you be successful in all your endeavours.
New Year Wishes
It’s time to start dreaming, to be comforted, and to laugh off your burdens. It’s time to welcome hope, which is more important that welcoming the New Year. This is the secret of the New Year...
A Very Happy And Prosperous 2009 For The Entire World
Through this blog I express my love and hearty wishes for all the cultured and peace loving people of this world, who value a civilized human society and are always ready to do their level best to achieve and preserve the same.
Kerala-Spriit's Own Country
One estimate claims that while Kerala spends Rs 75 billion on liquor, the expenditure on the staple food rice was less than Rs 30 billion! The annual revenue to Government from liquor sales through various taxes was Rs 18 billion in 2007...
The Sands of Time
Hello Arun, how are you? When did you come back from US? I thought you still had six more months left, gushed forth a chirpy voice on the phone. Oh, I came back last night...
SweetPotato-Potato Cutlets
Recipe is same as that for Potato for cutlets, except mix some cooked/mashed SweetPotato with it. (SweetPotato = Chakaravallikazhangu in tamil)....
The key to a happy marriage
Once marriage happens, all that simply disappears. We are simply supposed to "know" that we are loved, there is no need to show it to the other person. So he asks his mom, how did her and dad stay together so happily for so long...
Head facing north
Checking further, I found out that American Navajo Indians also believed that you should never sleep facing North, as it was evil and only for dead people (Wow ! just like in India!!). Their taboos are pretty interesting...
Watch Collection
It is the remarkable collection of clocks and watches that fascinated me the most. There are clocks and watches of all shapes and sizes...
Sleep vs Sound
Like every aspect of our lives, this is all flouted by all and sundry with impunity. We need very little incentive to start off blaring music with earsplitting loudspeakers to celebrate any event...
For Richer: For Poorer?
Let's not forget that we, the ones who're cossetted and warm,
Are not in the majority; we're, sadly, not the norm.
We can't cure all the ills of life, and do we really try?
But it doesn't hurt to pause a while and simply question 'Why?'
Are not in the majority; we're, sadly, not the norm.
We can't cure all the ills of life, and do we really try?
But it doesn't hurt to pause a while and simply question 'Why?'
Sell Schools to make Malls
Sell schools to build shopping malls! You heard me right. This is no joke but that is the latest ploy of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in a view to fill their coffers. And 15 schools are apparently ready to be auctioned, 60 others are in the pipeline.
Thursday, 1 January 2009
Chintz
A New Year dawns and I recall
Other New Years when I was small,
When 'Christmas trees were still so tall'
And way above me.
Other New Years when I was small,
When 'Christmas trees were still so tall'
And way above me.
Down the River of No Return
I suppose that people do not like to spend New Year eve on a train. Or was it a fear of terror attack? There was a warning about an assault on our aircraft carrier Virat, but the Alleppey Express, I felt, was too insignificant a target. I reached back safely.
Bangalore motorcyclist shot dead: the lessons to be learnt
A B Com student, who was involved in drag racing, fell to bullets fired by sentries guarding an army compound into which he entered while trying to flee the cops who had flagged him down.
New Year Wishes
A beaming smile, a warm embrace and lots of good wishes to you all. You know why? Because you are simply the best in whoever and whatever you are....
Monthly Bleg
We ask you to contribute original material related to food technology that will be posted with attribution to the writer. If the material is of high quality and prolific enough, you can even become a coblogger!
Road-trip report: Masinagudi, Ooty, Coonoor.
Directions to the temple are very nicely marked. Temple was a bit crowded - an ITDC package tour bus had just landed. But had a great dharshan of Palli Konda Ranganathar...
CFTRI: call for ‘accountability check’
The Central Food Technology Research Institute (CFTRI) takes up a sizeable chunk of Mysore’s real estate. Does the R & D done here and its benefits to society add up to justify the size and scale of CFTRI’s Mysore establishment?
Me wanna talk talk and talk
But the most memorable ones are those in India...with my family rooted in front of the television, watching Doordarshan's New Year's Eve program...
Trails in Andra Pradesh
We covered a lot of places enroute to Warangal and then travelled onwards to Palampet. I missed Bhongir as it had become dark, but I hope to get there again. sometime.....
A Petition to the Lord With Prayer
I am asking everyone who believed in what we do to commit a fix amount, no matter how small, for us every month so that no door needs to be closed, no smile needs to be lost and no child risks to drop out of school and lose his morrows. Is it asking too much.
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