Category: Us people

  • The Salesman

    The Salesman

    Hope Ira Hayes will excuse me for borrowing her title. One of the most irritating issues for me, is the telecaller of illegal status, mumbling in Hindi! The absolute height was the oriflame office from Bangalore, the customer care person talks to me in hindi and demands that I reply since it is rajyabhasha, of…

  • No Girl Left Behind

    No Girl Left Behind

    Today is the international girl child day, I am looking back, when we grew up gender was never an issue, so to me lot of this stuff that media throws up is strange, yet last year a fellow blogger had put in a question, about girls changing name, I found it idiotic, I still do.…

  • Edappally Church Kochi

    Edappally Church Kochi

    We drove down from Kothamangala to Edappally, the drive was beautiful, the coconut palms and beautiful houses with their lovingly tended garden, so much so I plan to make a a trip just for the garden houses of Kochi and even Trivandrum. Those houses triggered the images of an ideal house which I only see…

  • World Farm Animal Day

    World Farm Animal Day

    Ever thought about this, before the first supermarket appeared on American topography, apparently in 1946 …and in India maybe a decade ago… where was the food? The food was at home, in the garden, local fields or forests, backyards, pantry, food bought from the vendor vending peddling it door to door, or at the weekly…

  • world vegetarian day

    world vegetarian day

    October is the month of vegetarian awareness. This was established by the North American vegetarian society in 1977, and the international vegetarian union endorsed it in 1978. The idea is promote joy, compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism, and whole halo of things. A vegetarian way of living is definitely beneficial. No I am not…

  • Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé

    CLICK HERE to sign Council of Canadians pledge to not buy bottled water or Nestle products. You’ll feel better and so will I. [Note: this is not the first Nestlé boycott. As a sociologist fri… Source: Council of Canadians announces Economic Boycott of Nestlé