The Great Ganesha

A tasty dish of eels in chili oil, dowsed with crushed red chillies. Mmmm… Even though I’m a pretty big foodie, I don’t usually write restaurant reviews. I guess I’m one of those people who’d rather eat the food than write about it while pretending that I’m an expert on the subject. I’m much better [...]

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So I recently discovered that this blog is the ‘Featured Blog’ on WordPress.com’s ‘Offbeat’ tag page. It was for my ‘A Hindoo Madonna’ posting. Check out the post here. And check out the ‘Offbeat’ tag page here. Postscript: Not sure if people realize that I deliberately mis-spelled ‘hindoo’ to reflect the way our colonial lords [...]

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Is it fresh? Is it old? We’ll never know. It is special though, that’s for sure! If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

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After a slight delay, I continue talking with Nikhil Roychowdhury, Founder-CEO and President of The Simple Leaf, an online start-up that sells tea. For those of you just joining in, this is the third and final part of an interview in three parts. Part One can be found here. This part continues from Part Two, [...]

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Continues from Day 1. We were greeted at our entrance into the park with a common sight. Then we walked by the banjo twanging and rhythmic fiddling of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. The only appropriate response to these guys is this one. But we didn’t stick around there for too long. We were headed [...]

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The Dictionary Wiktionary of Bombay (and Urban Indian) Slang or Bambaiyya, which was a wiki-blog I started some months ago, is no more. But no need to grieve – it has been upgraded to a wiki. The way the original wiki-blog worked was that you submit a comment with a word or several words and [...]

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Yours truly has been bestowed the daily honor of becoming Desicritic of the Day. Check it out. I’m only on there for today, so do it soon. And, as always, look around. There’s some pretty dang smart writin’s goin’ on there… If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

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So this last weekend, the RXGeek and I were jogging in the Golden Gate Park and realized that the one of the biggest bluegrass festivals in the country was going on in the park, right under our very noses! Well, we live half a block away, so I guess we have pretty long noses. Ok, [...]

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Pakka NRI Ok. I’ll admit it. I’m one of those desis who only really started watching Hindi films once I came to the US. Before that, I got my dose of Bollywood on the occasional Sunday evening, when Doordarshan screened its weekly movie. And the only reason I really watched them then, was to avoid [...]

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Grade: B Here’s an interesting recipe. Combine: (1) a failing motivational speaker; (2) his heroin-addicted father; (3) his Nietzche-obsessed step-son; (4) his chubby, prepubescent, Miss America-wannabe daughter; (5) his weary wife; and (6) her brother, a suicidal Proust scholar. Throw them all into a beat-up, banana yellow VW van, get them on the road, and [...]

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