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Recently I have gotten my reading appetite back, and have finished reading quite a few books. Humor though was never one of my things, may be I can blame it on not being come across good humor stuff. My encounter with humor was more or less limited to comic books till I was in school, and not I get my dose from the comic strips of magazines, newspapers etc.

It has been long, since I posted anything new in this section.  Well, I have not tried my hands on many new recepies for almost sametime. :P Guess that has to do with, yummy indian food being available almost everywhere and anywhere, after I came back to India.  I just want to try them all, before going back to my own cooked food again.

Completed reading Arvind Adiga's Man Booker prize winning book 'The White Tiger'.  I liked the book okay, not great or even good.  It left me wondering, was this just another 'The Slumdog Millionaire'?  The storyline almost is a rags to riches story, with a dark undertone to it.  Book ends with a note of guilt, sarcasm and a kind of uncertainty.  I liked that, even though I have certain weakness for 'happy endings' or even 'fair sad endings'.  That is the only point, which makes the book sta

The other day searching for Salman Rushdie's Fury in the library, I found Haroun and the sea of stories.  Well, honestly speaking I have never heard of this book of his.  I had read The Midnight's children couple of years back, and whatever reasons bring Rushdie into news time and again, it was hard to imagine that he would write a fable (read a children's book).  Quite amazed, I picked both the books from that aisle, and blame it to my curiocity I picked up Haroun and the sea of stories first and finished reading it in a week.  Well, I am not that slow a reader, but I pretty much get time

Credit of this recipe goes to a friend of mine. But I liked it so much (and moreover its so simple to make) I really could not resit posting the recipe here. Nimona is a popular recipe from Bihar and UP area in India.  The preparation is real easy, and it tastes amazing.

Ingradients:

I love books since I was a little kid.  The interest for it started with  the stories my dad used to tell me when I was a toddler,  and then he started getting me books whenever he went out.  And then we moved to a different part of city, where I found a treasure of story and other books in one of our neighbour's small home library.  I remember it was one summer vacation and I finished almost all the books for my age by the time vacation was over.  I finished almost all the books before that uncle got relocated to a different city ;).  Then I had my school library, which was good,  but we

I finally installed Linux (Ubuntu distribution) in my personal laptop (Dell Inspiron).  The 'finally' starts with a friend's persuation of giving Linux a try, who is a fan and follower of all open source softwares and strong opposer of piracy in any form.   He let me do couple of test drives of Ubuntu in his personal laptop, before I was convinced to get it installed in mine.  So the 'finally' ended today after I installed Ubuntu's Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS), for those of you new to Ubuntu, they release new version

I had dish long back in a restaurant in India. And couple of days back when we were almost out of vegetables in our kitchen with just some frozen stuff in the refrigerator, I thought of trying out this dish. Checked couple of recipes in net, and tried it out with some variations of mine. The dish came out pretty good, with comments from my friends as: it tasted somewhat like veg kurma (Chennai style).

Ingredients:

Etiquette is a defined (or undefined) set of mannerism and behavior in a community or any social occasion. This is what makes a civil human being and its the first step to sophistication. Work etiquette is a basic requisite for any corporate job, well actually any job for that matter. This might vary a bit from country to country, based upon the culture and social structure; but ground rules are the same almost everywhere. Etiquettes at work help building a healthy work culture and reduce the stress level to quite some extent.

Lets have a few points jotted down here.