In one of my posts I had talked about the joys of bargaining, and asakiyume had said she would never like it...I need to explain this to her' I buy stuff in two ways. One is...the straightforward way. I look at the price of something, pay it, get the item, and off I go. But on the other side is the whole wide world of bargaining! It takes a lifetime here to know what is ...
In the heart of Mylapore past Luz connecting North Mada (mAdA) Street and Katcheri Road is a small street...lane...called "Maddala )Narayanan Street" (maddaLa nArAyaNan) Who Maddala Narayanan was, history does not see fit to record (at least, I couldn't find traces on the internet!)..."maddaLam" being a variation of the percussion instrument, the Mridangam the ...
Organizing events is not something I do regularly...I do hope it's something I do well...! When one is organizing an event, one HAS to take the majority's convenience into consideration while setting the date and venue....but it's SO disappointing when some of the people who, you know, will add a lot of value to the event, cannot make it! I am organizing the JLRNTP meet in January Twenty-Ten......
deponti made a post on Self esteem which started "Our Indian culture seems, to me, to be excellent at one thing...keeping down the sense of self-worth in individuals who are meek in nature to begin with." Very true, except that trying to lower your self esteem is considered a privilege these days. When I was in Coimbatore I told Suchitra's aunt how the roads of Coimbatore where not ...
We want to find our way through a city? We buy maps, we look up Google maps, or... we ask for directions. Especially in India, we do this as we stand...or park...in the middle of the road, generally getting the person with the lowest IQ in the area, who either gapes at us or confidently gives us wrong directions. But our politicians have better methods. On my way back from the walk, I noticed ...
Very long post, read only if you have some leisure. I do love my country, which often has its flag represented in unique ways: And I like walking through its cities. Each city in India is quite distinct from the other; not for us the bland homogeneity of a skyscraper downtown and sprawling suburbs...I find Indian cities totally fascinating. Like all Indian cities, the architecture in ...
You know you've spent too long abroad, when....you sit in Chennai and find yourself trying to calculate what time it is in Bangalore! I tried out tree-climbing ...and a couple of days ago, I snapped this: It struck me forcibly that what was just a pastime for me, and a sport for others, was a livelihood for some people. (You can see that the man in the photograph above is ...
I'd posted about my first Photograph of the SIRKEER MALKOHA ...and on the way back from Maidanahalli, we saw first one, and then, high up on the rocks, two near each other. In an interesing switch, I got this FS (Foozly Shot) of the Malkoha taking off from the rock: then I got this video of the bird in its habitat, where it's doing nothing but sitting quietly! Photo with action, ...
from deponti: * The patient refused autopsy. * The patient has no previous history of suicides. * Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital. * Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days. * She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hotin bedlast night. * Patient has chest ...
