Amazing cooks

             Not many people have this gift which makes them special and I have seen only a few of these kind. I am talking about cooks, not the ones in the restaurant but people who cook food in general in our homes.
            I like cooking and I cook a lot; my curries, soup , fries etc are good and I like them but I cannot call them tasty. There is this thing which differentiates a good food and a tasty food and that is always missing from my cooking.
          When my wife cooks something, I can see that additional touch, that touch of glory and that unique gift where only few people have. I can see that she is among those few who are truly gifted. Her each dish is a treat to my palate.

          The same is true with my mother-in-law's fish curry; she has this amazing ability to make wonderful fish curries.
          I can recall how my taste buds were dancing with joy when I used to have "tomato daal" prepared by my grand mother, tomato/brinjal (eggplant) pickle (manual preparation not with a grinder) , my mother's spinach/green leaf daal.
          These people are exceptional cooks in their own way and my wife of course stands apart due to her innate ability in making every dish special!

           A big bow to these wonderful women, I am indeed one of those few fortunate beings!!!!!

when your monthly salary takes a break

This is probably the worst one can expect in his/her life; what if your salary takes a break for a particular month? 
Everything falls down under; you won't be able to pay your mortgages, your car loans, your rent, your gas bill, electricity bill, water bill, credit card dues and your usual monthly expenses for groceries, transport and food.

Its kind of strange that most of the people on earth earn their living through salary and everything in a man's life revolves around salary; its just so bad that a precious human life is just a waste without a salary.

Most of the countries "tax" their individuals and I feel its also a nation's responsibility to "salary" its individuals.
You can't have one way.

my latest kanchipuram trip pictures

living away

Its always tough to be away from your loved ones!

and if living away has been continuous then its even tougher!

i've been living away since the new millennium started (the year 2000 when I entered my university education and I was 17 then).

I am 29 now or closer to 30, its been 13 years and I gained a lot of experience living with different people but I lost so many good moments with my parents, grand parents and other relatives.

And now I've been living away from my wife, my new born lovely kid!

Its tough, its definitely not easy, so many millions of people are doing this, reason??

everyone have their own compulsions and situations which demand these!

So lucky are the ones who stay with their family and children and I am one of those not so lucky fathers who miss their baby's early days! I am glad I was with my boy during the first two weeks after he was born. 

He was such a beautiful baby boy, looking more like my father than me! when I look close into his eyes it is as if I was looking at a childish face of my father!

My boy is growing up now, he is almost a month old now, trying to talk to me via SKYPE!

I was told he is laughing a lot during his sleep, he might be dreaming about me and might be thinking of my lullabies!

There is just no reason which justifies living away other than that you are born for it and there is a greater cause awaiting you!

All the people from the third world has no other option but to look out for a better world!

I don't want to move away from my country but the positive aspects of living away are more than staying in my country at least temporarily.

Immigration has been started in this world millions of years ago and everytime a person moves away from his native land he feels this feeling of "staying away" and "missing my homeland".

If you look at a big picture, god is trying to create a "one world" where every nation has people from all other nations! may be we are part of this mission!

customs and traditions above human life

This is the most unfortunate thing happened to india centuries ago; people here value traditions, customs, rules, "reethi", "rivaaz" more than human lives.
This is very shameful, I should blame all those disgraceful people who created these rules.
I know Manu is one such culprit who desgined all these traditions sometime in BC; if I really get a chance I would make sure that kind of person is never born on this earth.

How can you put traditions above life? centuries after centuries these ignorant Indians have been blindly following as if they are god's words. I should say its the fault of how "brahminism" developed during those times.
All the Rajas and kings used to respect those arrogant "knowledgeable" persons who designed rules for the people and made sure that no section of the society ever even think of knowing the truth.
Its a pity that I am born as "hindu"; I should declare my identity, my caste everywhere I go while I stay in India; because Indian state recognizes people based on their identities.

If I get a chance to choose a place in my next life, I'll not choose this country in its present state, I will choose my birth either during "ashoka's reign" or "chalukya's" or "pallava's" or may be during the INdus valley civilization.
I don't want to be born in a nation where power rests with few individuals and where only these few people decide how the other people live.

I sincerely pray god to degenerate hindu "culture", to eradicate all the religious heads who make rules; I think it should be the same with every religion, all the religious heads (only those who make rules) should be sent to god, either he a muslim or jew or a christian.

all this debate again comes to "religion"; religion controls human behaviour, human evolution and much more. there is so much that a religion contributes to human lives and it takes generations and generations to remove one religion and I don't think its even possible.
Imagine if you want to remove hindu or muslim religions from this world, is it possible? never until human life stays on this earth.
For people like me, all this frustration goes to a blog or a column or to a diary; other than that we just couldn't do anything.
Ok, here is the time to take an Oath.
Until I live on this earth, I will respect and value human life more than anything else!

a silly lovely post

to love someone means???

to love her beauty
.. love her hair
.. love her smile
.. lover her smell
.. love her walk
.. love her dress
.. love her thoughts
.. love her craziness
.. love her attitude
.. love her behavior 
.. love her talk
.. love her language
.. love her existence

and finally to feel her love