I am a Spice Girls fan, I used to like the funk in their songs. Sadly for the millennials though, they never heard of the band; let alone their songs. The only spice that survived the bygone era was Posh Spice, better known as Victoria Beckham, wife of football star David Beckham. So, you may…
Category: Trivia
The Princely Problem
As a part of my college syllabus, I came across the lovely story called The Princes by author Manohar Malgonkar. Being royalty himself, Malgonkar was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Maratha Light Infantry,a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer. The story deals with the the state of Indian Royals after Indian colonization, the…
Chilled And Wild
Not many know of my connection with Heineken beer. Since I fly often between Bangalore and Bombay; I end up reaching the Bangalore International Airport way before I’m due to fly. The airport is a cool 50-odd kilometers from my den, so I prefer being early than sorry. So to kill time, I usually pick…
Tongue In Cheek
Kerala is wonderful in terms of tourism. If you are a sea food lover, it’s heavenly. Fort Kochi is the only nugget in this vast beautiful state that I have been to. It’s tourist friendly to the T, but sometimes, when you try too hard to be tourist friendly, you loose track of common sense….
Happy Solar New Year
Now several people in a major part of India are oblivious to the fact that south India is made up of five states (Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) with distinct languages, cultures and celebrations. While Ugadi marks the new lunisolar year in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the same is celebrated as…
São Gabriel
This is the stunningly realistic oil painting of São Gabriel; the flagship of Vasco da Gama’s armada for his first voyage to India in 1497-1499. After he invaded Kochi, the locals fought its new captors valiantly. The ship is featured in the 2011 Malayalam movie Urumi and is said to be a masterpiece. Hopefully, it will…
Going Full Throttle
Highlighting the connection between the Arabs, Indus Valley Civilization settlers and Kerala is the Maritime Museum in Kochi. The museum brings out some very interesting history of ship building in India. This is one of the speed dials on the iconic ships that the navy manned back in the days. The museum also has interesting…
Laugh Out Loud
There is a proper civil code of public behavior for most people who matter: Women, royals, head of states, academic genius and gentlemen among other. But none of these people are reined in or restrained in any way. They just know how to behave with whom, and the appropriate reaction to most situations. Being yourself…
For The Love of Food
Chopsticks are of a pair of tapered wood, ivory, or plastic sticks of held in one hand and used as a fork, especially by in China, Vietnam, and Korea and Japan. An interesting trivia is that Japanese chopsticks tend to be shorter than those in China, Vietnam and Korea as these countries had a culture…
The King and His Men
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. The old children’s poem apparently has several myths attached to it. One is that there was a canon name Humpty Dumpty, which was used to capture Colchester during the…
Snapshots of my World 