Last friday, I got a "Mom Andre's mom wants to come home, and she will follow your car" when I went to pick up Miti from school. So I waved and proceeded home with Miti. On the way he gently told me that the plan was to go to Andre's mom's house on the weekend and be back on Saturday morning.
Andre ...
Sometime during my MA years at Hyderabad, India my classmate Dhanalakshmi and I went to see a telugu movie called "Bava Bava Paneeru". We landed very early for the movie, and actually got seat numbers 1 & 2, which for me is the rarest of rare events, ever. So we had time to kill and landed at a shop called Iyengar’s bakery opposite the theatre and
...Lord Krishna has been known as the greatest Vedic philosopher of his time, probably of all times. Vedas - four as they are named in modern times - are said to be the scriptural authorities of the Hindus. They represent the eternal knowledge captured in words. These four are:
- Rig Ved - Yajur Ved - Sam Ved - Atharva Ved
Amazingly, Krishna mentions only the first three in Bhagwad Gita. It was quite strange
Wishing all my brothers and sisters spattered across the globe and at India, as well as friends of Indians, a Happy 60th Independence Day. When we look back, its hard to think that it has been only sixty years, since the Independence. Much has happened, some good, some bad. Its hard to understand, but without our previous generations fighting for independence, I would not even be blogging about it. So here's
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