Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Us people

  • Shobha,Sulekha and me

    reflecting on Plinky’s question In what way do I stand out? In what way do I stand out? I do not know but here’s thinking about it. When one talks of standing out then definitely we are talking about a standard line, and either falling ahead, or behind or in line with it. What better…

  • Uncle Tom's cabin

    The book that inspired the civil war. IMG_4101 A book that made me cry Uncle Tom’s cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This a book that spoke of the black slave community. The faithful Uncle Tom probably inspired strong anti-slavery movement. Many thinkers and historians believe that the popularity of this book lead to the breaking…

  • Johnny Appleseed

    The Quixotic envoirnmentalists.

  • Manku Thimma –DVG

    Lyrics by poet DVGundappa,uses the pen name mankuthimma that is equivalent to Simple simon to reflect on everyday wisdom.   My mother tongue Kannada is spoken in the state of Karnataka in the southern peninsular India. Bangalore is its capital city. One of my favourite lyrics is in this language, written by a poet called…

  • International talk like a pirate day

    Ahoy matey and proud beauty come across a galley the day is international talk like a pirate day. Swill a pint or two of grog and stuff the salmagundi in the name of John Baur and Mark summen, who gifed the 19th day of September in 1995. Be that a no matey? Ye get to…

  • Uncle Sam

    I always found the reference to United States as Uncle sam very handy. Particularly when I have to make my digs at the Bay area Behanji’s or New pastures of the SK-Dabha (the slang my father and his friends had for south Canara Brahmins hostel at Chennai). This day in 1813 this became an accepted…