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An Unsung Heroine - Chitra (Jagjit) Singh!
. Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh, the famous ghazal singers! I did a post on Jagjit Singh's ghazals long back. Our whole family is a great fan of Jagjit and Chitra Singh. The post is here. His wife...
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Pinjar (2003)...A 'Don't Miss' Movie!
.Chandra Prakash Dwivedi's movie, Pinjar ! I wanted to watch this movie, 'Pinjar' which means, skeleton, for a long time and at last did it last Sunday. I had heard/read a lot about it and it was...
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Iniya Tamizh Puththaandu Nalvaazhththukkal! Ugaadi Habbada Shubhaashayagalu!
. .Happy Tamizh New Year! Happy Ugaadi! Vishu Aashamsagal! Happy Baisaakhi! Shubho Nobo Borsha! To all my friends and relatives, here! God bless us all!Sandhya
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Holidays, Holidays, Holidays...
. I am hearing for the past half an hour, a small girl crying 'please pa, please pa...' from an apartment at the back of our house. Both of us, I and my husband, are feeling restless and feel like...
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India Is Really Unique - Here Is A Temple For People To Help Settle Down Abroad!
.Hawai jahaaz Gurudwara (Airplane Temple, Daoba, Punjab). I wonder why the two peacocks are there on both sides of the plane! Some reason should be there! I came across this news now...this seems to...
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A Day Of Positive News!
. Whenever we open a newspaper, we are used to reading news about murders, accidents, RAPE, burglary etc. We are so used to it that we just give just a glance to them. We have become very...
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I Am Going To Miss These Things...I
. It is always human nature...when we have things, we will not give too much importance to them. Once we know that we are going to get away from them, then the nagging ache starts in our...
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Vengaaya Thogaiyal/Onion Chutney
.Ingredients: 1. Big onions/vengaayam, chopped - 5 2. Mustard/kadugu - 2 tsp. 3. Black gram daal/uluththam paruppu - 1 tbsp. 4. Red chillies/sigappu milagaai - 10 to 12 5. Curry leaves/karuveppilai 6....
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I Feel Sorry For My Husband!
.This is an old cutting of the players of the 1971 India-England match - I had this cutting in my scrap book! I had written the names of the players too! One more link of the players of the same match...
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Nagercoil Vegetable Markets...A Heaven For The Rare Bird Now...Sparrows!
.WELCOME PAIR: Sparrows searching for worms and insects among discarded vegetables at the APPTA market in Nagercoil. I love Nagercoil! I wrote about Nagercoil cutting on plastic usage in these posts,...
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I Am Going To Miss These Things...Part II
. This will be the last post from my current house...sorry, I have to record my feelings here so that I can read this after some years about this house. My airtel connection will be disconnected from...
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Faber Stove...A Bad Experience....
.Faber Hob GB 30 MT - 3 burners, 72 cms. I wanted to start blogging from the new house with a happy post. At least a 'Wordless Wednesday' or a 'Photo Friday' picture! But no...you are made to read...
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Indian Idol Junior...New Gems In Our Musical World!
. I always love to watch musical reality shows from the saregama days (Sonu Nigam was the anchor and Shreya Goshal participated as a small girl). In those days, the stage was simply decorated and...
View ArticleVande Maataram! Happy Independence Day To All Of Us!
. First let us all thank our Doordarshan for producing these two lovely patriotic songs/videos, which show how unique our country's people, their culture, etc.are! I think these videos will be apt...
View ArticleAre You Happy With Your Name?!
. Well...a TV episode triggered my brain to write this post! In the serial, the heroine is a bold, modern girl. She tries to change the superstitious rituals of olden days. One is, naming the...
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Gokulaashtamiya Shubhaashayagalu! Janmaashtami Ki Shubhkaamnaayein! Krishna...
. I used to hear Smt.M.S. Subbulakshmi singing my favourite song, 'Krishna nee begane baaro', a Kannada Krithi on Lord Krishna, by Purandara Dasa, since I was small. We used to go to concerts and...
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Have You Tasted This?
. I had been to Usman road, a famous shopping area in Chennai, two days back. I had seen this cartwallah, selling this coconut flower (we call it thenga poo in Tamil) for a long time, whenever I went...
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