Parwatisingari's Weblog

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  • Fatefully yours

    A God without dominion,providence and final cause is nothing but fate and nature. Dublin – The Three Fates Do I believe in fate? The dictionary says fate is • Something unavoidable that befalls a person. • The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of thins is presumably prescribed. The decreed cause of…

  • Stranger in my space

    “Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.” To a Stranger. by Walt Whitman PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to…

  • From Pune

    Originally posted on Amit Paranjape's Blog: 12 July 1961 – this fateful day will remain forever etched in Pune’s history. A day that changed the history and geography of this great city. Call it a bad coincidence – but two events that happened almost exactly 200 years apart have played a critical role in Pune’s…

  • Resident of the Rashtrapati Bhavan

    Making of a president, 2012 Last week it was an interesting interaction with Retd. Major General Vinod Saigal of the Indian army. A well-known author and commentator on South Asian Politics. Was in town for the release of his latest book revitalising the Indian democracy. He really made us think in terms of our political…

  • From Pune

    Originally posted on recipes : Thalipeet is a northern Karnataka, Maharashtra breakfast dish. This works somewhere along the lines of sandwiches, and chaats where the cook can go berserk with imagination. Ingredients: ½ kg.        Raagi flour(millet) 2              onions 4-5           green chillies finely chopped. 1-2 tbsp    coconut scraping. 1 fist full of bay leaves…

  • Crown Prince??

    Isn’t India supposed to be a sovereign democratic republic where people choose their representatives? Well the media and congress seem to take it for granted we are dynastic, after Indira the crown prince Rajiv, after him the widowed queen mother Sonia waiting in the wings the heir apparent. Salman Khurshid’s inundations in his politically correct…