Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Issue challenged,

    It is politically incorrect to say, “Mentally retarded” we say “mentally challenged” like I am vertically and horizontally challenged, TOI is issue challenged, or is very picky about it readers… This morning I did something which I rarely do, that reading the TOI I am amazed at the mundane matters that it perceives newsworthy! When…

  • Meet, Platinum

    Gold the most common metal used for jewellery in india, silver is second in the lower income market and platinum in the upwardly mobile crowd. Gold as we all know look, beautiful, bright, shiny yellow, and is rated in carats, pure gold is too soft. Other metals are used to strengthen it, in the south…

  • Bombay smell!

    Smelly to smiley.– www.facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia “Bombay smell” my 2 ½ yr. Old daughter had declared. We were amused then. We were amused again, when she declared it as we entered a flat that was shut for about a year. The smell was stagnant water and rotting sewer. but then I realized the there were no good…

  • clock of fragrance.

    This was a very strange place for this smell. Not one expected at a three star hotels. The smell of a rice  granary. Most of the traditional houses along the west coast had this “agrashala” or store room. The smell of the days of long stretches of holidays that suddenly galloped to a finish. The…

  • Tale of the brothers– ramakatha

    Ramakatha. North Indian houses, believe that Ramayana should be read in the house, as it is a tale of brothers bonding but not Mahabharata. Ramayana is indeed a tale of brothers, Ravana–Kubera Ravana-Kumbhakarana Ravana- vibhishana Vali – sugriva Jatayu-Sampati Rama–Lakshmana Rama-Bharat. Somewhere in this annals poor shatrughna stays forgotten. The Ramayana of uttarkhand talks of…

  • Laurel’s Wreath sacrificed..?

    I have this little dog barking in my head, particularly when I hear the word sacrifice. There is so much of reverence and a laurel’s wreath bequeathed, I stand correct a halo drawn over this word sacrifice. We are being subjected to the great sacrifice of the Gandhi-Nehru amalgam, and the freedom struggle, well to…