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Needless to say I am somewhat homesick today. (For this moment, home = home with parents). I woke up and realized five minutes later that it was Vijayadashmi. I am not a spiritual person, but at times, I turn religious. There is a calming hypnotic effect in rituals that I yearn for. Plus, as I [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Culture, Family and Friends, Self, Sri | 17 Comments »
Some people love rava (or suji). I like rava, but won’t exactly die for it. Sri is another story. He may kill for rava.
Now, the other day while Sri was attacking a rava dish, and insisting that it was the perfectly Tree-Tamil (Mara Tamil) thing to do, I told him that rava (wheat rava) is [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Food and Gastronomy, Sri | 19 Comments »
I have always liked studying with the television on. I like studying with music on, but usually I get more involved with music and get easily distracted. Ideally, the television should be playing one of those old Hindi and Tamil films that I have seen so many times, that I know every damn dialogue, situation [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Funny, Music, Film and Art, Sri | 22 Comments »
I had the wonderful chance to catch Albela on television last weekend. The clean scrubbed sets of the 1950s clearly warm the heart. The songs of Albela are a real treasure. Sri didn’t seem to think too much of Bhagwan. He asked me (in all probability to annoy me) why all the men in the [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Cities, Music, Film and Art, Sri | 14 Comments »
Yesterday we went skydiving. To be fair it was a tandem skydive. Which means you can let go and someone else is in charge. But it doesn’t change the sheer thrill of jumping out of a tiny plane from a height of 12000 feet. We wanted to go solo skydiving, but the sheer commitment involved [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Self, Sri | 19 Comments »
The Ideasmithy asks me to come up with my favourite photograph of the year. There are actually two. One of them is of the Agrasen Ki Baoli. A place that continues to fascinate me. In the middle of the heart of a city fighting smog, pickpockets and rising temperatures, is a step-well. Home to pigeons [...]
Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Photographs, Self, Sri | 3 Comments »
The flight back to London was largely uneventful. However, I saw a few really bad movies. The inflight entertainment had a lot of good movies too, but I felt like I’d seen them all. Besides, the sheer pleasure of watching a bad movie etc. But more on that later.
At the Delhi airport, which till [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: India, Photographs, Sri | 12 Comments »
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