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The pensieve: January 2010
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A place to capture my varying moods and thoughts. Wednesday, January 13, 2010. It's strange what new places away from home can do to you. Take me for instance - I never in my life as much as entered the kitchen while I was in Pune, and stuff like gulpoli and puranpoli? I couldn't even attempt to dream about preparing such delicacies! But thats for entirely another blogpost. With overflowing enthusiasm, even after coming home from office as late as 9, we made it a point to prepare one sweet, and do the ar...
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The pensieve: My cooking escapades
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A place to capture my varying moods and thoughts. Thursday, May 8, 2008. This time when my holidays started, my mother was very sure about one thing she wanted to accomplish over the hols - get me to learn some cooking! So it was decided (by mutual convenience) that I should take the "responsibility" for dinner, every night. Breakfast, which she suggested before dinner, was out of question - I can't wake up that early, everyday in the hols! Here, I should mention that while I'm not exactly about to starv...
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The pensieve: October 2007
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A place to capture my varying moods and thoughts. Monday, October 22, 2007. Is it necessary, (and okay? To sometimes act totally insane in order to preserve your sanity? To make unrealistic demands, give in to illogical reasoning, and insist on the irrational? To give vent to all depressing feelings, albeit in the confines of your room? I guess it is. Makes you feel like you are 5 again, and even if its just momentary, gives you a feeling of freedom and relief afterwards! Saturday, October 20, 2007.
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The pensieve: Petrichor
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A place to capture my varying moods and thoughts. Monday, November 2, 2009. Finally found an English word that means "mrudgandh" - petrichor ( http:/ bestofwikipedia.tumblr.com/post/212747211 , http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor ). Apparently comes from petros = stone and ichor = the fluid that is supposed to flow in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. It was coined by two Australian researchers for an article in the journal Nature. November 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM. Good enough. :). Its strange what...
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The pensieve: May 2008
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A place to capture my varying moods and thoughts. Thursday, May 8, 2008. This time when my holidays started, my mother was very sure about one thing she wanted to accomplish over the hols - get me to learn some cooking! So it was decided (by mutual convenience) that I should take the "responsibility" for dinner, every night. Breakfast, which she suggested before dinner, was out of question - I can't wake up that early, everyday in the hols! Here, I should mention that while I'm not exactly about to starv...
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Naqsh Faryadi: Between food and opium: What Pakistani liberals fail to understand
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Sunday, February 20, 2011. Between food and opium: What Pakistani liberals fail to understand. This article was first published for The Express Tribune, Pakistan here. There’s something Newtonian about the way Pakistani political discourse is being carried out these days. At one end is the ‘. With their twisted ideology and their usual diatribe against the. 8211; a term which is about as meaningful as a Vegan BigMac. And his speech to the Constituent Assembly. Religious versus secular,. Change the subjec...
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Naqsh Faryadi: If not love, let frenzy be
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Sunday, February 20, 2011. If not love, let frenzy be. This article was first published in Himal Southasian here. There are some poets who speak of revolution, some who speak of love’s misery, some who are concerned with life, and then, there is Mirza Ghalib. Ghalib, or Mirza Nausha as he was sometimes called, is for me the poet of frenzy, the poet of madness. The frenzy of. Love), the frenzy of. And the frenzy of. A mythical phoenix-like bird) that I could never catch. There were verses which were d...
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Naqsh Faryadi: April 2010
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010. As' you like it. Please fill the answers in your comments. D)Himesh(as judge on reality shows). 2)As fake accented as. 3)As pretentiously intellectual as. 4)As 'all show,no go' as. B)The host of 'Sansani'. D)Himesh( as a singer). C)Anyone who went to see 'James'. A)Me(any female choosing this is entitled to a free gift! D)A white dwarf(only for gays n geeks). B)One of the above. C)All of the above. D)I dont have one. Links to this post. Don't touch it yet,. Don't remove that veil.
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Naqsh Faryadi: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Just thought of this:Had Arundhati Roy been a dude, would she ever call her book "The God of Small Things". Links to this post. Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Original Julka Chess Jokes. Q)In chess, what do you call a queen who's having an affair with her knight? Q)What is Vishwanathan Anand's strategy while pursuing females? So until next time.I m checkin out,n mating(hopefully! Links to this post. Thursday, March 4, 2010. First in the queue, we have company 'H'. Company H was fou...
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Naqsh Faryadi: A verse
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Sunday, October 24, 2010. I had written this verse about two years ago.and like all my great ideas, it occurred to me at the most unlikeliest of places (no need to mention that), at about three in the morning. And for the non ahl-e-zubaan, it reads. But parasti se aakhir hamein kya fa'ida? Gar khuda insaaN hota to aaina hi kaafi tha". Here's a rough translation:. Of what use to us is idol worship? Had god been a human, a mirror would have sufficed. October 24, 2010 at 4:46 PM. View my complete profile.
