Saturday, August 13, 2005

Vada Pav

Mumbai's favourite snack was born 35 years ago, when Ashok Vaidya, a snack seller outside Dadar railway station, decided to experiment. The combination of batata vada and split pav continues to be the city's sledgehammer answer to the burger. Eaten with or without a sweet and sour sauce, it has all the ingredients that your nutritionist recommends.

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Memoirs


I was coming to my office after my lunch. I got a smell in the corridor which is the same smell I enjoyed when I used to read my textbooks during my 2nd-4th classes.
1) A lesson in my 2nd class-"Where are my glasses?". A father named "kutchu"-wears glasses down the nose and asks his family about them, and finally his wife spots them on his own nose. He has a wife (forgot her name), 2 sons (ram and shyam) and a daughter(sita).
2) Another lesson with ram & shyam going for shopping without bags. Shyam ends up carrying 'wheat' in blowse cloth purchased for sita and holds vegetables bag between his teeth. A picture of him carrying all these is in the chapter
3) There's a lesson about 2 frogs in a village. 1 climbs over the other and narrates to the other frog what it's seeing. It describes evvything about the city and they finally decide not to goto the city.
4) And, there's a lesson describing a village with all these people living on the bank of a river. No, No, I forgot the village name, I even went back to the corridor for remembering but could not remember.
The smell was just sucking. I think the smell was that of binded text books. Anyhow, I got fresh after a bad morning where I lost my purse. One more good thing is "I got a reasong to blog !!".