Monthly Archives: February 2011

Flavours of Winter – Reliving My Childhood

Returning to my home state after seventeen years, which is almost half my life, I decided to overindulge in things that I had missed for all these years. As far as food was concerned, it meant eating vegetables which we always associated with a season. We always had lady’s fingers, lauki (bottle gourd), parwal, turai [...]

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A Weekend in Jaipur

I am neither a fan of the tanginess of ker-sangri, nor have the ability to bear the chilli-heat of lal maans. Probably I am a RINO (Rajput in name only, though the acronym is more commonly used by Sarah Palin types for more sensible Republicans). Anyway,  due to shortcomings of my taste buds, I was [...]

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