....l HATE HOME-MADE PARATAS!!

....OK!! This is a rant...! If you don't wanna hear brown boy moan, you may as well just close this window and go back to whatever it is you were doing...which if you are anything like me regretting that ULTRA-HEAVY meal you just ate on a Sunday evening and washed it down with a HUGE bowl of yoghurt! 

Earlier this year, I had lost 6 kilos and for whatever messed up reason, that worried me and I started cooking at home and started eating again for taste (not hunger)....look, let me explain what eating for taste means, I'll explain it using simple numbers....

Scenario #1 

Hunger = 4 slices of bread + Nutella 

Taste = 6 Aloo Paratas + Mango pickle + Yoghurt bowl (+ one large glass of pudin hara)

Scenario #2 

Hunger = 1 bowl of break fast cereal (for dinner)

Taste = 6 Plain Paratas + Soupy dal + Yoghurt bowl (+ one large glass of pudin hara)

Scenario #3

Hunger = 2 bananas + handful of nuts + 1 slice of cheese (#true story) 

Taste = 8 Phulkas + Chana masala + Mix veggies + Yoghurt bowl (+ two large glasses of pudin hara)

 ....so yes you get the picture...what am I supposed to do now?! And I don't even dare weigh myself.....this is just ridiculous...!!!

On an important side note, if you are ever in Belgium and want a delicious home made parata meal, just show up....Don't worry, I have enough stock of pudin hara for you as well...!! :)

**Pudin Hara = Ayurvedic all natural digestive liquid, its a life saver truly!!

...the enormous distance between near and here...

As usual, this blog has been coming for a while now...

Every life, especially human, has an objective, the sooner that objective reveals itself to the subject, the easier it is to get your act together in pursuit of the objective....! This is a rather strange phenomenon really when you think about it...How does the objective choose to reveal itself? And when does it do so?

The shortest distance between two planes/points is a straight line and even a micro millimeter deviation from the shortest path has the potential to lead you a completely undesired end goal....! This is common sense, this being said, doesn't the ALL knowing objective know this?!

Quoting Jabala Upanishad and as usual analyzing it perhaps more than necessary!

तवं वा अहम अस्मि भगवतो देवते।
अहम वा तवं अस्मि भगवतो देवते||

To realize "that art thou" is "near"
To realize "thou art that" is "here"

...the distance between near and here seems like an exhausting one to cover!! :-(

...the kind Indians!

I'm in India!! I'm in India for work!!! Its been a few years since that happened. I love being here. There is something fundamentally agreeable and compatible with India as is expected to be being my motherland....!

We (Indians) are by nature simple people! Politeness and kindness are deep rooted in our culture and nature. We are friendly people and often shy!! Too shy and polite to even refuse an unreasonable, impossible and often arrogant demand....

This blog has been coming for a week now. Thanks to my relentless travel and work schedule, it had to wait for a whole week!

The flight from Brussels to Bombay was 'bumpy' and I was more sleep deprived than usual this time around. As a consequence, I had a headache so severe, that it felt as though the back of my left eyeball was being pierced through with a large nail all the way from the left temple!! I wasn't a pretty sight!! :D :D :D

As soon as I boarded the flight to Madras, I requested the hostess to see if she could give me something that'll make the misery stop. That kind lady came down to my seat with a magic pill, some biscuits and some water!! After 15 minutes, when I was fast asleep, woke me up so gently like an affectionate mother would wake her sleep child and enquired about my pain while handing me my special veggie meal. I'd like to believe India is largely represented by kind human-beings like her as opposed to what today's main stream media in India would like us all to believe....

...India's problems with Pyjama Patriots!!

Dr. Swamy (a personal hero of mine) coined the term PTs (Patriotic Tweeples) - I think I qualify to be a PT....

Today, I realized, I was something more (or less actually) - I am a Pyjama Patriot!!

Yes....thats right!! PYJAMA PATRIOT! That guy who wakes up late on Sunday, spends a whole hour or two in bed lazing around while checking his facebook, twitter feeds, gets offended at anything anti-India, anti-hindu on the internet and launches a cerebral cyber counterattack with my heart-felt sincere opinions!

While, this is certainly an improvement from watching cartoons and stand-up comedy, is this really enough?? If it is, then why do I not feel good about myself?? Why is there un-treated guilt in my system??

I'll confess why - I DID NOT VOTE LAST TIME AROUND!!!!

Here is a promise to myself - I WILL VOTE IN 2014 and stop being a Pyjama Patriot!