Last weekend, I made paneer makhani again. I am getting addicted to this stuff. Paneer makhani, or paneer butter masala as it’s sometimes called, is really quick to make, makes you feel like a super chef and quite tasty too. I had a half hour to squeeze in cooking between grocery shopping and gardening, and…
S called me in the middle of a busy day. But that was okay, because I wasn’t doing anything important anyway. I was just busy, which is a completely different thing. “Did you read this NY Times article on this boom in tourism to Mexico?” she asked me. Now, I hadn’t read that NY Times…
A darkened synagogue in Midwestern America. Two Americans are praying – one, a neurosurgeon who super-specializes in complex brain surgery involving repairing the brain’s thinnest blood vessels and dissecting tumors. The other, a social worker who lives and works in Ethiopia. What are the chances these two strangers would meet? But they do meet, and…
Do people spend more on movies when there is a recession? If they do, why is it so? The New York Times had this interesting observation about the box office collections last week: Overall the Top 10 films took in $134.4 million, according to Screenline. That is about 10 percent higher than the $122 million…
There is ice on Mars! Water ice, I mean.? That’s what the Phoenix Lander found today. But I hear NASA’s astronauts are not impressed.? They don’t want to go to Mars unless there is also Diet Coke.
I have been meaning to try writing Haiku verse for some time. In a tentative, will-it-bite way, I love Haiku, though I am not sure I can do any good with it. I am too verbose for Haiku, I can never use five syllables if five hundred would do the job instead. But then, Shefaly…
For a short time after we moved in, I did not have any immediate neighbors. Now I have the usual complement of “adjacent” neighbors – one on either side. I have never been to either neighbor’s house. With one, we chat every weekend, standing in our respective backyards. Often, we do this while holding (i)…
Secrets are supposed to remain, er, under wraps, you know? Hide in closets, or in dark attics, or wherever they like to hide. The really successful secrets will probably hide in plain sight, but the point is, we never find out what they are. Not any longer. BlueMist has tagged me to reveal ten secrets…
Tornadoes are cat-lovers.? Why else would a tornado rip off the roof and overturn sofas, but leave the cat’s bowl untouched?? The same tornado also likes to play with toilet paper. Perhaps this was a teenage tornado then? Adolescent anger and all that?
How does an air hostess’s weight matter ? Of course it’s vital, as any airlines will tell you. Air hostesses must be slim and young and pretty. Never mind if they are not courteous or speak such poor English that they do not understand what “toast” means. That’s not what their job is about anyway.…
If you thought McDonald’s outlets are staffed with the bird-brained, you are very right.? In fact, some of them are birds.
A Mumbai BPO firm now has a “mobile recruitment van” that makes “spot offers” to people in shopping malls and railway stations. Desperation seems to be climbing new highs everyday.
A Spelling Bee just for South Asians? Why? Aren’t they all over the regular one anyway? Via
I hope you are curious about what I read. For that’s what this post is all about. Neha tagged me to do a book tag. You can see that she has been trying to read everything except that tome on Local and Regional development which she needs for her exams. Not that I blame her…
General Motors is going to close four plants making SUVs and pick-up trucks. It may even sell off the Hummer brand. GM’s main rival, Ford has already announced that it will stop assembling pick-up trucks in its Mexican plant, and build a sub-compact car called Fiesta there instead. It is also eliminating one shift in…
The Imagined Universe 