Ever tried a “delicately fried, exquisitely breaded bite sized sphere, filled with perfectly shaped chickpeas picked from the plains of Harit Pradesh and complemented with handpicked and diced Malda potatoes; served with an aromatic concoction of cilantro, effervescent mint reminiscent of sun kissed fields, and tangy tamarind that explodes into…
50s are the new 30s? Stuff and nonsense!
Had recently come across a Whatsapp forward posted by a very wise man. It said, “Beware! I am retired. I know everything and I have the all the time to tell you about it”. I too am retired and I too know everything. But no one listens to me. I…
Ah! The travails of the rich and the famous.
You know Ranveer Singh, right? The one whose personality matches his fluorescent sartorial sense (well let’s just say quirky)? For those who don’t, let me tell you that he is a very successful actor. I love his movies. He just seems to fill the screen with his effervescent presence. But…
Want to go one up on a monkey? Try this
“New appointment in Railway service: Langur seen working in a railway office” was the imaginatively titled article in a newspaper recently. You can read about it here. Apparently (and I am copy pasting here), “a video of a langur ‘working’ inside a railway office is now going viral. The video…
Think Mad Max is mad? Indian Scooterists are madder
As per the Times of India (25 July 2023), India has the largest number of two wheelers in the world. The patriotic me, overjoyed at seeing us ahead of China read the article with great interest. Apparently, we had 32.63 crore vehicles, 75% of which were two wheelers, in 2020….
Movie for the Commanding Officer: A fraught mission indeed!
I had made a mention of my Midshipmen tenure in Visakhapatnam in one of my earlier posts here. To recap, I was appointed by the Navy on a corvette for my Midshipmen tenure at Visakhapatnam in early 1987. The corvettes were fabulous ships – sleek, fast, had a menacing silhouette; bristling…
Is sauce for the goose also sauce for the gander. No!
I guess only Indians with their quaint eating habits will identify with this post. Nevertheless, here goes… Cuisines vary dramatically from nation to nation. A vast diverse country such as India will see cuisines change virtually every few hundred kilometres. I had mentioned here that I was fortunate to spend…