“What’s for lunch?” my Mom asked me on Skype. No doubt, she was wondering why I was chatting with her on a weekend instead of feeding her son-in-law. “Masala pasta”, I said brightly. My brother V, who was visiting India, grimaced beside her. “How did you make it?” my Mom asked. “Well, I boiled the…
Some suggestions: 1. To the World Taekwondo Federation – could you please change your name? To the World Taekwondo Association, or the International Taekwondo Federation, or basically anything else but the World Taekwondo Federation? 2. To the New York Times – can you get yourself to pause and resist the urge to abbreviate? Or at…
She was cleaning out the shoe closet and neatly organizing all the shoes in it.? There were two things that struck her – first, each cubbyhole could hold one pair of her shoes, but only one each of his shoes.? So his shoes were occupying twice the space that hers were.? Second, she also realized…
How many times have we heard people say things like “This younger generation just does not know Indian tradition.” I just realized they are right.? There is so much I don’t know about Indian traditions.? For instance, I was just reading this New York Times article on how people are photoshopping their vacation and wedding…
Who says turtles aren’t intelligent?? These turtles certainly are. About 60 newly hatched turtles decided to turn around and grab a bite at a beachside Italian restaurant before heading off to sea. Why Italian, you might wonder.? Obviously, they were bored with seafood 😉
My recycling bin doesn’t like its job. It is also not afraid to say so. Every week, I put out the recycle bin on the street. Plastics, cans, card board, paper, all go into this bright blue bin and get picked up by the garbage disposal truck. But my recycling bin keeps running away. Sometimes…
Happy Independence Day to all of you! As I sit in a faraway land and sip my Indian tea, I think about past Independence Days of my childhood.? They all dissolve in a blur of hoisting flags, collecting sweets and returning home early from school. My parents’ generation must have actually seen the first Independence…
The Niketa Mehta saga ended sadly with a miscarriage, according to HT news reports. Perhaps it was all the emotional stress of the relentless publicity, or perhaps the physical stress of going to the courts, meeting with lawyers and traveling on bumpy roads. Or perhaps, it’s the body’s own way of rejecting a foetus that…
Researchers at University of California, Berkeley, have discovered a material that acts like a cloak of invisibility. Yes, it makes objects invisible by a process called “negative refraction” of visible light. Unfortunately for all of you trying to hide from your creditors, the cloaking has so far only been demonstrated on “thin, two-dimensional materials”. This…
If you have patiently read through Part1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this story epic saga, you will know that Twisted Ankle and Busted Back are trying to create a perennial bed in their backyard. So far, apart from bodily injury, they have achieved precious little. Oh, all right, the lawn has finally been…
Hailey Jo Hauer was born on 08.08.08 in Fergus Falls, MN.? Nothing unusual in that, though this is supposed to be a lucky date and all that.? But there’s more – she was born at 8:08 am. And…she weighed 8 lbs 8 oz at birth. I am trying to come up with what else she…
It is very hard to tear myself away from the engrossing (and emotional) debate on abortion and the Niketa Mehta case to more mundane issues. But given that I have already received all kinds of threats of bodily harm (and worse), I think it would be wiser to push on with the story 😛 If…
Like everyone else, I have been reading about the Niketa Mehta case and feeling quite disturbed about it. I also read a few blogs with different opinions on the topic (Mad Momma, Soumya, Maami, Prerna). The background – Niketa Mehta approached an Indian court for permission to abort her 26 week old foetus which has…
This story takes off from my previous post here. Twisted Ankle and Busted Back (called TA and BB for now, because they haven’t twisted their ankles/ busted their backs at this point in the story) set out to create a perennial bed in their backyard. What started off as a search for Trek bikes on…
Twisted Ankle and Busted Back surveyed the flower bed they had just finished planting. Then they counted the plants. Thirty eight plants had been planted since morning. A lot of them were in bloom, and the flower bed was looking very attractive with pink and purple blossoms. Then they turned around and their eyes widened…
The Imagined Universe 