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  1. Writing on the wall

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    / April 27, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Actor Rana Daggubati tweeted : “Just passed by a billboard that says “Improve your handwriting”, I really  need to enroll.”   Rana, I mourn my handwriting, everytime my fingers run on the keyboard. Like I am now. There was a time I was immensely proud of my handwriting. Now 9...

  2. Vetha Kuzhambhu-Vengaya Sambar, like Sehwag-Sachin !

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    / April 16, 2011 / 2 Comments
    If Valmiki and Vyasa took Indian epic writing to its pinnacle of glory, if Shakespeare and Milton lent lustre to English Literature, if Lindwall and Miller tormented the batsmen the world over and always hunted in a pair, if Gandhiji and Vinobhaji instilled spirituality in politics, Vetha Kuzhambhu and Vengaya...

  3. Big(gest) dosa is beautiful, a bit too salty as well !

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    / April 13, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch   As if in keeping with Vijayawada’s status as a busy railway junction, the dosa was as long as a railway compartment. The 38.5 feet long dosa prepared by the hoteliers of Vijayawada, the longest dosa ever made in the world, is now part of the Guinness...

  4. The Cup That Cheers

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / February 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    I am a tea addict and consider myself fortunate that I appeared on this earth later than tea. When negotiations about my marriage were in progress, my father-in-law secretly enquired through his local emissaries if the boy had any addictions. He was told that the prospect he had in mind...

  5. Chilling out at Ice House

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    / February 23, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By S V L Narayan In the quest for professional success and the responsibility of running a family, one tends to forget the good times one had as a college student and the strong bonding with class mates. As students in Mysore, twelve of us from varying family backgrounds would...

  6. Chennai and the art of eating idlis

    Posted by Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha
    / February 13, 2011 / 3 Comments
      By Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha All eyes are on a small pile of gunpowder. And a tiny rivulet of ghee snaking through it, threatening to flood over the edge of the banana leaf.    It is my meal. But I am staring transfixed, not very sure what I do next. The elderly...
    Posted in Chennai, Food
    Tagged gunpowder, idli, snack

  7. Purge of a cuisine

    Posted by VVP Sharma
    / February 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By V V P Sharma   Hyderabad was where cultures crossed. The Hyderabadi that the people speak is the prime example. The Hyderabadi Biryani is an integration of the north and south, the concept of the ‘dum’ and the use of ‘bhojwal’ and peanuts. The ‘chai’ is as Irani as...
    Posted in Food
    Tagged cuisine

  8. When Palakkad moved to Ahmedabad

    Posted by Bhagirathi Kumar
    / January 28, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Bhagirathi Kumar   Train journeys are something I usually look forward to, and this one was special for various reasons. We were at the Palakkad station, waiting for the train to arrive. It was no ordinary trip though; we were moving away for good. I was taking in all...

  9. 11 things to remember in ’11

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / January 15, 2011 / Leave a comment
     11 Things to remember to save the environment in 2011     Don’t throw garbage outside your house just because road does not belong to you. Stop or cut down using plastic pouches, carry bags. You can make your own newspaper bags in your leisure time.  Use fountain ink...

  10. Heavyduty alarm signals

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / January 7, 2011 / Leave a comment
    In the last one decade, there has been a phenomenal increase in obesity among teenagers in Hyderabad. The study that my clinic, the Hyderabad Spine Clinics conducted, revealed a detrimental change among teenagers.   The observations noted between 1999-2009 showed abnormal increase in both peripheral and visceral obesity. The study...

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