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Bhaja Moog er Dal — sabji diye
I thought I was done with pre-holiday posting and could get on with my life with minimal cooking & much entertaining till the next week. Only 2 more days to a 4 day holiday weekend makes you feel like that.But…
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UCLA 9A: Notes on Indus Valley Lectures
The first few lectures of Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of India, a course taught at UCLA and which has Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of India as mandatory reading, talks about the Harappan Civilization.
In Lecture 2, the instructor mentions a list…
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Avatar as a Rorschach Test
On the cab ride back from the theater where we saw Avatar, my friend Uthra remarked how it was odd that protagonist Jake Sully’s avatar in the movie appeared with a U-shaped marking on his forehead which very closely resembled…
December 21st, 2009
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What’s so bad about Dan Brown’s writing anyway?
Language Log is a language blog run by a team of terrifyingly intelligent linguists–I can follow about half the content on a no-hangover day. LL began in 2003; I discovered it only last week (throat slash). I have since moved from admiring to obsessing–checking the contributors’…
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The Big News + Chocolate Hazelnut Marbled Cake
Before I get to the delicious cake, I want to tell you about the big news I was holding on to a while ago.
If you’re following me on Twitter or Facebook, you might have heard me gushing about finally…
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A walk through a crafts mela
Bangalore in the last month played host to two arts and cultural festivals, one organized by the Times of India – which I missed completely – and more recently, the Bengaluru Habba – of which I caught one excellent jazz…
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Avatar – a movie with a green message (Movie Review)
This film is Science Fiction with a difference. The aliens are not evil, but perhaps the human are. Humans being evil is not an uncommon theme as there are war films which veer towards this idea. But Avatar tackles other…
December 20th, 2009
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Avatar: Trees Are People Too
I am glad, I wrote about “what” and “how” here because it is very relevant to this movie, albeit, at a different scale. Avatar, in some ways, reminded me of the first time I watched T-2. Terminator 2 was all…
December 19th, 2009
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Bhabhi chale Copenhagen
Folks, this is Munna Mobile reporting from across the Atlantic or whichever water body is closest to here in Denmark. Since we don’t have a camera person or a cute news reader to talk to in the studio, we shall…
