“Good morning sweetie”, the text would read. I’d stretch and yawn (or is it yawn and stretch?!) and sleepily text back, “Woke up to your message, love!”
He’d leave for work and I’d accompany him over a phone call. Not entirely romantic; we’d discuss the day’s news, sports, plans for the day and the possibility of catching up for a quick coffee. During the day, there would be more texts and calls. When weekend arrived, we’d make sure we spend time together over dinner or a cup of coffee again! Movies were never our kind of thing. If at all we went, his preferences were animation movies! So obviously, watching movies weren’t quite an often occurrence.
The courtship lasted two years and the next 6 months flew away in breaking the news to our respective families, the official meeting and preparations for the wedding.
It’s been a month now; of being married to him. “Good morning kanna” (kanna – a word used to denote a dear one in Tamil), the text NOW reads. It’s from my mother.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Up close and personal!
Trees are not a rarity, but with all the changes, every time there were a bunch of trees, he stuck his neck out to take a better look. He smiled and muttered a wow! ‘A nature lover’, I said to myself.
His feet were tapping to a constant rhythm. Being a singer, I noticed he never went wrong. ‘A music lover; a knowledgeable one’, said I between smiles.
He kept looking at his watch; either he’s late or a stickler for time. I liked the latter and concluded it’s that!
Our eyes met. He smiled at me and I found it hard to resist! He was dark; not exactly handsome but a rugged look. And with all that I got to know about him, and most importantly, all qualities I like, I returned his smile with my best!
A mere hour in a bus and I actually got personal details of a complete stranger! Who said travelling is boring?! That too in the traffic of Bangalore? ;)
His feet were tapping to a constant rhythm. Being a singer, I noticed he never went wrong. ‘A music lover; a knowledgeable one’, said I between smiles.
He kept looking at his watch; either he’s late or a stickler for time. I liked the latter and concluded it’s that!
Our eyes met. He smiled at me and I found it hard to resist! He was dark; not exactly handsome but a rugged look. And with all that I got to know about him, and most importantly, all qualities I like, I returned his smile with my best!
A mere hour in a bus and I actually got personal details of a complete stranger! Who said travelling is boring?! That too in the traffic of Bangalore? ;)
Monday, June 8, 2009
WHAT-ITARIAN ARE YOU?
“How can you even manage to watch them cook that thing?” my mother and grandmother would rant as they would watch the famous food show. Being born a vegetarian, I would understand what they felt and would quickly change the channel. Most of my growing days were spent in my friend’s place who was a non-vegetarian and I was quite used to the ‘sights’!
I ended up falling in love with someone whose passion among other things is non-vegetarian food – the root cause for writing this piece! He went out to a ‘pure-vegetarian’ restaurant last night and came up with this blog called ‘Meatless moments at the table’ or something like that! (You can read the copy at www.rohitnambiar.blogspot.com) It’s a personal choice as to what you choose to eat, but when he wrote this piece and said one was far better than the other, I had to hit back!
As I woke up last morning, my mind was preparing what to write and the newspaper became my aide. Sunday Herald (Deccan Herald) carried this brilliant article titled ‘Can vegetarians save the world?’ The following caught my attention:
• It takes three kilograms of cereal to grow one kilogram of meat
• Nearly half the cereal we grow is eaten by animals we presently eat
• Every Indian is a vegetarian. Even if some of us eat meat and fish, we never eat anything close to the global average of 37.5 kilograms of meat per year per person to qualify as carnivores
The article ended on a different note by bringing to notice that Indians can’t portray themselves as ‘pure vegetarians’ with so much cruelty in them in terms of baby slaughters, burning brides, widows etc.
Anyway back to food. Remember the famous dialogue between Big B and Tabu in ‘Cheeni Kum’ where Big B claims that the water level in the sea has increased because of the tears the fish are shedding, seeing their clan dwindle in number due to non-vegetarians? I had this broad smile when I saw that scene.
I have had my share of non-veg tasting with an open mind. Having been to local eateries and the best of restaurants in Bangalore to get a feel of this cuisine, I have concluded that my experience has not been mouth-watering! Yes, we vegetarians might have to suffice with just paneer, gobi and a mélange of vegetables but I think I am content. I think most of us might have had this experience just before we venture into non-veg eating/tasting. Our friends will claim that chicken tastes like potatoes and fish like paneer! Then why eat non-veg when I can eat my potatoes and paneer! Lol!
Oh yes, some non-veggies would not agree with my sentence above, claiming their food has a distinct taste but guys, listen! We suffice with paneer, gobi and ‘boring’ vegetables and you guys with a variety of fish, heart, brain, liver and even privates of those poor animals just have the same spices and batter to fry them in or a bland stir fry of them all!
Being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian is a personal choice. I have seen many vegetarians relish their new found happiness in non-veg food and so be it. Anyway I dint write this piece to promote vegetarianism but it was just a rebuttal of sorts to the blog I read! No offense meant; it is just a way to bring out thoughts when one reads others’ articles! It now sits here pretty as a blog!
I ended up falling in love with someone whose passion among other things is non-vegetarian food – the root cause for writing this piece! He went out to a ‘pure-vegetarian’ restaurant last night and came up with this blog called ‘Meatless moments at the table’ or something like that! (You can read the copy at www.rohitnambiar.blogspot.com) It’s a personal choice as to what you choose to eat, but when he wrote this piece and said one was far better than the other, I had to hit back!
As I woke up last morning, my mind was preparing what to write and the newspaper became my aide. Sunday Herald (Deccan Herald) carried this brilliant article titled ‘Can vegetarians save the world?’ The following caught my attention:
• It takes three kilograms of cereal to grow one kilogram of meat
• Nearly half the cereal we grow is eaten by animals we presently eat
• Every Indian is a vegetarian. Even if some of us eat meat and fish, we never eat anything close to the global average of 37.5 kilograms of meat per year per person to qualify as carnivores
The article ended on a different note by bringing to notice that Indians can’t portray themselves as ‘pure vegetarians’ with so much cruelty in them in terms of baby slaughters, burning brides, widows etc.
Anyway back to food. Remember the famous dialogue between Big B and Tabu in ‘Cheeni Kum’ where Big B claims that the water level in the sea has increased because of the tears the fish are shedding, seeing their clan dwindle in number due to non-vegetarians? I had this broad smile when I saw that scene.
I have had my share of non-veg tasting with an open mind. Having been to local eateries and the best of restaurants in Bangalore to get a feel of this cuisine, I have concluded that my experience has not been mouth-watering! Yes, we vegetarians might have to suffice with just paneer, gobi and a mélange of vegetables but I think I am content. I think most of us might have had this experience just before we venture into non-veg eating/tasting. Our friends will claim that chicken tastes like potatoes and fish like paneer! Then why eat non-veg when I can eat my potatoes and paneer! Lol!
Oh yes, some non-veggies would not agree with my sentence above, claiming their food has a distinct taste but guys, listen! We suffice with paneer, gobi and ‘boring’ vegetables and you guys with a variety of fish, heart, brain, liver and even privates of those poor animals just have the same spices and batter to fry them in or a bland stir fry of them all!
Being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian is a personal choice. I have seen many vegetarians relish their new found happiness in non-veg food and so be it. Anyway I dint write this piece to promote vegetarianism but it was just a rebuttal of sorts to the blog I read! No offense meant; it is just a way to bring out thoughts when one reads others’ articles! It now sits here pretty as a blog!
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